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Where are the local broadcasts?
By Yaniv Orgad
Tags: NBA, basketball 

The NBA's Western Conference race is tight for the first time in a long while, Boston has come back to life, Detroit and San Antonio are, as usual, in the mix and the Sports Channel has news for us - it prepares highlights from all of the games. Where? On its Web site. But if we are already in front of the computer, what is missing from highlights from other Web sites? Or programs that allow us to connect to all sorts of channels around the world so that we can watch the games live?

Wait a minute, doesn't the Sports Channel have a channel called 5+ Live? Wasn't it established precisely for right now, when there are important tournaments and playoff games from the best basketball league in the world? Is it too much to ask to get one live playoff game per day? Didn't the promos for the premium channel at the beginning of the season blabber on about more NBA broadcasts?

In practice, we got three games every week and a little playoff action (two games from the Lakers-Nuggets series and one from the Wizards-Cavaliers series). Pathetic and sad.
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On top of this, ESPN Israel has not strayed from its "two games a week" ritual from the regular season, and you get an embarrassing and outrageous ignorance of the biggest thing happening in world sports at the moment (with all due respect to the 0-0 snoozefest between Barcelona and Manchester United in the Champions League semifinals last week).

There is no point in trying to get an official response. The answer is predictable: financial considerations. If we could get the games in the age of a single sports channel (that you didn't have to pay extra for), then why should we pay in order to get nothing?

Sixers 95, Pistons 75

AP adds: On Friday, Philadelphia dominated the Detroit Pistons in a 95-75 victory that gave the 76ers a 2-1 lead in their first-round series.

Also Friday, Dirk Nowitzki had 32 points and 19 rebounds to lead the Dallas Mavericks over the New Orleans Hornets 97-87 in game three of their best-of-five series, which New Orleans leads 2-1; and the San Antonio Suns downed Phoenix 115-99 to take a 3-0 series lead.
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