Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 8:00 am  |  86 responses

Win A Year of League Pass Broadband!

Time is your currency.

by Ryne Nelson

We have a full year subscription of NBA League Pass Broadband for you. Well, for just one of you, that is.

We’ve got the bill covered, but the winner certainly will be paying a price — a personal one. No doubt about it: Unlimited access to every NBA game* can become a social disaster! Of course, we’re not giving this subscription to anyone. The person who’s willing to watch the most games will win.

So tell us what you’ll cut back on (friends, hoops, work, etc.) if you had League Pass Broadband. (Keep it clean, fellas.) Whoever will be making most significant cut-backs on life gets the subscription.

The comments section will soon uncover the most dedicated NBA ‘viewer.’ So let’s get to it!

* Nationally and locally televised games are subject to blackout and are therefore not available via NBA League Pass Broadband (regardless of whether team is home or away).

** This contest is for U.S. participants only. By entering the sweepstakes you agree to release Sponsor, the NBA Entities, SLAMonline and their respective affiliates and agencies from any and all liabilities for injuries, damages or losses of any kind to in connection with the sweepstakes, prize or any prize-related activity.

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  • YoYoYoYo

    I will give up stealing NBA games online in frustratingly laggy, low quality, illegal, and virus riddled streams from China that usually don’t even show my team anyway. Real talk.

  • http://theacdrinkinggame.com Dave

    Since I already get all the Cavs games locally, I will give up playing the Austin Carr Drinking Game for the entire season if I win this contest. Think about this. It’s a wildly addicting drinking game that I have been doing for going on 3 years now. I will break tradition to be able to stay sober enough to enjoy all the games I’ll be able to watch.

  • Juwan Angel

    Man, to tell you the truth I would give up on my friends and going outside. Nothing happens where I live at any way. Then I would give up on playing my games and watching TV.

  • http://www.howtowatchsports.com Roger Pimentel

    Let’s be honest—once I get home from work, my day is already full with watching as many games as possible, whether live or Tivoed.

    League Pass, however, lets us realize that there are, in fact, other teams in the league besides the Lakers and Celtics.

    With League Pass, I’d be cutting back on the Worldwide Leader-sanctioned games, and watching the more interesting ones instead.

  • BK24

    I would cut back a lot on hanging with friends. I usually have a lot of homework and I would stay up to mostly watch Laker games since I’m in Central time. My social life would take a hit but the love of the game and rush of watching the elite teams play every night would prevail.

  • Justin

    I won’t win. I never win contests. I am the absolute opposite of lucky. I am the worst at leaving comment and drawing blanks at critical situation.

    BUT

    IF I WIN? I will cut back on eating JUNK FOOD! I WILL sacrifice JUNK FOOD for a year for the League Pass Broadband. JUNK FOOD IS LIKE MY BEST FRIEND! WINGS, CHIPS, BEER-CANDY, CANDY…ERRRRR

    YOU WON’T REALIZE HOW PAINFUL for me to give that up for winning this BUT I WILL!

  • Justin Richard

    I have not had a tv for years, and as much fun as it is listening to Cedric Maxwell call the Celtic games on the radio, and catching bits/highlights here online, it would be more fun to actually watch some games.

  • lol

    I will make an actul promise that i would try to keep, im gonna make all A’s in school promote Slam as mch as possible, stop going on Facebook for a whole year, and be the biggest lakers hater of all time sides rich ppl who can actually be known for it also my parents are really cheap so i cant get cable so i cant watch any games, ID WATCH ANY NBA GAMES IDC WAT THE TEAM!!!!

  • Adam

    I live in New Zealand, where we get the Australian version of espn, and nba games are played live around midday only two days a week. And since we get Aussie espn they play a disproportionate amount of Bucks games (Bogut), which obviously sucks as they should be in the D-League. So for one, with nba broadband i will never watch another Bucks game, I’ll skip my afternoon uni classes to watch, and i’ll never watch Australian espn again or flick mindlessly through the other 80 mediocre cable television channels we get here.

  • durf

    no more class, no more ass, all i want is nba league pass

  • runngun22

    Homework. You know what that means? Giving up on school. You know what that means? Giving up on my future. Yes, I’m willing to give up my future to watch NBA games.

  • Nique

    If I get the NBA League Pass plain and simple. Here are the things I would give up SLEEP, I would stop coaching my high school basketball team and yes my family my wife and kids as well as immediate family would suffer cause I’ve got the league pass and that’s all that matters til the final whistle blows

  • peyton adams

    i wlove basketball sooo much that i will cut back by not chillin wit my female. srry babey.

  • http://facebook.com/pokedigi Ryan

    I am such a fan that I have been streaming crappy quality online games for the past 3 years, about 4-5 games on the most busiest nights at the same time. I am a Laker fan yet I go to school in San Francisco. While I enjoy watching the Warriors play, im gonna miss 90% of all the laker games. I am prepared to give up video games(nba2k10 AND call of duty modern warfare 2!!!) to watch these games, every tv show I follow(house, family guy etc.), fixing my computer, chatting on AIM, studying, probably dinner since I’ll be so focused on the games to only be able to eat small meals and most important to my life; talking to my girlfriend everynight on the phone cause ill be yelling at the computer rooting for all my different favorite teams. I will be cutting everything short of breathing and bathing( i will bathe after the games are done) I do out of my nightlife to watch these NBA games.

    On top of those, as a college sophomore living in one of the biggest party houses near SF state university, i will give up all parties/drinking/smoking/clubbing because thurs-saturday nights are usually the best match ups for basketball. i would probably also give up watching certain laker games(this is huge ive been a laker fan for 14 years, I am 19 years old) because I need to follow stats for my fantasty teams and i really would love to watch the out of state teams that I love like the Heat, Trailblazers, Timberwolves, and Wizards. I am a huge life-long laker fan. but i also love the game of basketball. I would devote atleast 3-5 hours a night to watch games, watch early afternoon games in class, and probably ignore my roommates to watch as many NBA games as possible.

    I think the most significant cutbacks for me however, are the lack of phone calls to my girlfriend, cutbacks on partying, and even giving up some laker games to appreciate the entirety of NBA league pass. I’m just a basketball fan who wants to be able to watch as much professional basketball as I possibly can. I’ve never ever had a league pass for any sport and i’d take this opportunity to put basketball above everything else in my life. If I got this, i’d gotta admit that my job hunting would end too, since ive been looking for a job to be able to afford either league pass or ESPN insider to follow live game stats. My entire life would change and adapt so I don’t miss a single NBA game. Even if I was sick, in the hospital, or on an airplane, all these places I can get Wifi and watch the games. I am giving up my nightlife and am willing to devote myself to viewing and watching NBA basketball. Praying for a 2k10 finals matchup between Lakers and Celtics.. classic!

  • James Flint

    I’ll give up porn.

  • albie1kenobi

    It would be hilarious to see Russ or Ryan or Holly or Ben in this comment section, saying “pick me pick me!”

  • Mazdak

    I am currently an unemployed geologist(oil companies don’t want to hire right now) so I have enough time to watch pretty much every game. But since you asked what I would cut out to make more time. Well, I could cut down on the amount of time spent eating, or spend less time with my girlfriend, or shower less. Wait, hmm, maybe it wouldn’t be such a good idea if I got this, oh well, its more fun doing the wrong thing anyways. So please hook me up.

  • Bomberharris

    As I’m from the UK, I would now make my social time the night time. Which would mean my social time would consist of me myself and I. My girlfriend would get fed up with me gazing at a flickering screen into the early hours of the morning, so we’d have to break up. I’d loose my job, after I crawl under my desk to go to sleep. Because of this, I’d no longer be able to pay my rent, and would be kicked out, which would pi*s off my flat mates who would then no longer be my friends. I would then roam around town with my laptop, looking for a wifi connection, and living in a smelly bin. After a while I would become feral,and start growling at people who interrupt my NBA viewing, and I would only speak in the language of Ball, so instead of ‘hello’ I’d start saying ‘For three!’ loudly to the people passing by from my dank home. Eventually the madness will take hold completely, and I’ll be placed in a secure unit, hopefully with my league pass (although it may have run out by then). I’d also be very ill, through lack of regular clean food and water. So that is what I am prepared to do, to get this pass.

  • http://dewjazz.webs.com DWeidlein

    School. I’ll drop out of college if that’s what it takes to win this thing. I love me my Nuggets man.

  • Michael

    this prize is only worth $150, you guys know this right?

  • Daniel

    Let me preface this by stating that I’m a PhD student and therefore have already cut all family and friends out of my life to work incessantly on that degree. But now let me address how I’m going to sacrifice all of my PhD work for the NBA League Pass. On average and without exaggerating, I read about 900 pages a week (if you don’t believe me, check out Diego de Torres Relacion del origen y sucesos de los Xarifes). Factor in that I’m doing it in a second language and you can imagine the amount of time it takes me. But alas! If you provide me with league pass everything changes. Pages read turns into pages skimmed. Whole books become brief on-line summaries and horrible reenactments on Youtube. Which then in turn leads me to risk all credibility and intelligence while discussing them in class amongst my professor and peers. I love the NBA so much that I’m compromising my future career.

  • http://joelim@umail.ucsb.edu Joe Lim

    I am a student, so all of my classes will take a hit (so to speak). Homework will be inadequately done, relationships will suffer, reputation will be non-existance, addiction will occur, rudimentary skills will be forgotten. In fact, by dreaming about the NBA broadband, I forgotten what my name is haha. It’s Joe right? Yes, Joe…

  • Richard

    I live in Canada so I guess I’m automatically exempt. I would like to enter nevertheless and offer this response. If I won your contest, I would give up having to sit all the nights that The Boston Celtics are playing trying to tune into NBA Audio League Pass as I would get access to the Broadband feed. It is hard for me to understand how the NBA can usher out such an inferior product as the Audio League Pass. There are many of us out here who still enjoy a good radio broadcast. We just don’t like the frustration of not being able to access it online through this promised service or anywhere else as the NBA has blocked online streaming from local stations. Maybe I will spend the time building that Crystal Radio set again as the NBA has put communications back about 100 years.

  • Brian O’Malley

    Stay up til all hours in the night coz we here in Ireland cant watch nba at all. barely ny1 plays so theres nevr matches on the tv. would really love to get to catch some games this year

  • Randy

    This would be an awesome gift because I would be able to follow as many NBA games that I wanted and still keep my new wife happy. She is from Brazil and would think that I was studying and learning Portuguese on the computer late into the evening when I was really watching the games on NBA LP Broadband.
    I guess, that I might have a problem later in the season when she starts talking to me in Portuguese and I look like a dumb-ass… but who cares… I could always hit the ESP button and converse with her in Espanol.

  • Michele

    We are in the process of adopting 2 little boys so, yeah, life is pretty much over the way we know it. Might as well get them hooked on the NBA at an early age. BTW, we are Cavs fans who live in CA.

  • Simon

    I wish I could say I’d be making a lot of cutbacks, but the honest truth is I’ve already made them. I’ve already had lots of sleepless nights, undone homework, classes missed relationships dissolved due to obsessing over the NBA and its intricacies. I read as many blog posts, articles, and recaps as I can sink my teeth into, listen to any podcasts I can find, watch nightly highlight reels, update my fantasy rosters daily. So if anything, getting a league pass would actually take away from all the other time I spend enjoying the NBA.

  • kev

    I already watch the few games I get at home on my phone through slingbox in class. With league pass I’ll be watching games even when doing homework! I’ll even make my girlfriend watch with me so we never have to go out anywhere!!!

  • Nicholas

    I will give up my late night partying to watch some NBA broadband. No JOKE!!!!!! The NBA makes you stronger. Late night attempts you to get high and drunk. I need some real partying in my life with some NBA broadband. Thanks for the proper contest. Will not make you dissapointed.

  • http://www.jameyburke.blogspot.com KobeWearsAPurpleThong

    OK-first off, the job has to go. With all the West coast games (I live on East coast), I’ll never be able to get up on time. To earn money, I plan on standing outside the Celtics’ players’ parking lot and harrassing Rondo for some of that $55 mil. He seems like a giving guy. AnyHOO.. I will also be getting an IV drip placed in my arm by my doctor. It will provide me with all the nutrients, vitamins and fluids I will need. Because I will obviously be giving up grocery shopping and eating solid food-just no time for that malarky. While at the doctor’s office, I will also be getting a catheter put in. No time for the bathroom folks! I hear they have these new NBA-themed ones with your team’s logo on the tip! I also will not shave, and will take sponge baths once a week (on days when there are no games) so I don’t miss any NBA action. Sex I am not sure about yet-there may be ways to incorporate that during a game. Laundry is out of the question as my washer & dryer are in the other room-I will just wear the cleanest dirty clothes I have every day. And finally, this is the tough one…I will not go to anymore Celtics home games. If I am going to have LeaguePass, I want to catch every minute possible of the NBA. Sometimes you just have to sacrifice! Ok, now bring on the LeaguePass man!!!!

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  • josh_guelda

    So i live in atlanta but im a bulls fan and wgn puts only 6 bulls games on a year. i need to watch that rookie of the year do his thing on a nightly basis. all i do is school ball and listen to the games all the games i am a HUGE oj mayo guy and painfully listened to the grizz blow an 8 point lead to the clipps last night. heard rudy went off tho but i would much rather watch all this then use the radio so do me that favor fellas. im out like kevin martin for 6-8 weeks.. damn. holla

  • josh_guelda

    So i live in atlanta but im a bulls fan and wgn puts only 6 bulls games on a year. i need to watch that rookie of the year do his thing on a nightly basis. all i do is school, ball, and listen to the games all the games. if i had league pass i would watch every game bc im a basketball fan always have been. nba season is hyped to be a great one and i have direct tv so of course i got the first week of games for freee but that only leaves me wanting more!!! its a tease man, but i stayed up till 2 every night eastern time. i watched kmart drop his 48 against my 2nd team da grizz. i am a HUGE oj mayo guy and painfully listened to the grizz blow an 8 point lead to the clipps last night. i listened as rudy went off for 33 but i would much rather watch all this then use the radio so do me that favor fellas. im out like kevin martin for 6-8 weeks.. damn. holla

  • http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2009/11/win-a-year-of-league-pass-broadband/ Noah

    As a die hard Knicks fan going to school in Wisconsin, I have been unable to watch the team I love so dearly. Even though I am aware of their record and expectations, I still love this team and unfortunately do not have the privilege of watching every game since I no longer get the MSG channel and since seeing them play on national TV is just as likely as seeing big foot. If rewarded with this gift, I will cut down on my socializing in order to watch every Knick’s game, among many many others. However, I believe that this will help me study more. By knowing that I will be watching the Knick’s game that night, it will cause me to get my homework and studying done hours or even days before they are due so that I can remain undistracted while watching these NBA games. Please award me League Pass so my grades can improve.

  • docrostov

    Dear Slam,

    If I get a league pass, I will give up settling for a hella-patchy Justin.tv connection that feels like I’m reading a Tijuana bible with my girl flipping the pages. Fact is, I love this sport so much I’ll be watching all the games I possibly can anyway, so I don’t got much else to give up but that. I’m not a guy who lies to win a thing.

    Maybe you’ll help an honest guy out, tho.

    - Aaron

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