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The NBA has done everything in its power to make it impossible to enjoy American basketball in Russia. However, if you really want something, then any prohibitions become conditional.

Here are at least five ways to touch the beautiful (and now also the forbidden).

NBA League Pass

The most convenient and traditional way is to purchase a subscription on the official website of the NBA.

Benefit : You get access to all matchday matches (both live and recorded), plus shortened versions of the matches with original English commentary. This year, League Pass has a nice new feature: the delay between real time and the broadcast will be reduced to a few seconds.

Disadvantage: it is rather problematic to subscribe in Russia. To do this, you need to have, firstly, a VPN with good speed, and, secondly, a non-Russian card with which you can pay for the subscription.

“Took the ball”

When Megogo, which owns the exclusive rights to broadcast the NBA, abandoned Russia, it naturally happened that the channel's Russian commentators continued to work, only within the framework of the “Took the ball” project.

This season, the telegram channel "Took the ball" shows 1-2 matches every day: last season, when the project started from scratch, the broadcasts attracted 2-5 thousand viewers with record numbers during the final series.

Advantage: The main advantage of "Took the Ball" over its competitors is a team of experienced and well-known commentators. Project boss Dmitry Materansky managed to unite everyone who has experience working at Matcha, Viasat or Megogo: Vladimir Gomelsky, Igor Znamensky, Vladimir Spivak and Andrey Pankrashev.

Disadvantage: "Took the ball" is clearly not chasing the quantity, but offers those matches that are considered the most interesting, so you can not always see your favorite team here (especially if you are a fan of some Detroit) . The project does not even cover absolutely all playoff matches, at least that was the case last season.

You also need to understand that the “Took the ball” commentators are not always perfect either. Young representatives of the project do not always quickly figure out what is happening on the site, experienced ones promote expert opinion (often controversial and annoying to many) right during the games, and all together they sin with monotonous humor (and endless jokes on Sergey Abaev), from which you quickly get tired.

Despite all the power of production and the best conditions, "Took the ball", supported by the bookmaker, could not completely get rid of the main problem of import-substituting broadcasts: technical problems periodically occurred during the first season, and even Spivak's unstoppable irony at such moments the situation is not strong brightened up.

AANBA

The founder of online broadcasts in basketball is the legendary Volodya Korvalol - it was with him that the All About NBA project began in 2013.

“At first we streamed on the VK platform, then GoodGame, then VidiTV,” says Anton Kuzmichev, project manager. - The peak of those years is 15,000 spectators on Vidi during the 2016 NBA Finals, the same ones where Cleveland made a comeback from 1-3. At that moment, one of the funny episodes is that the servers of the VidiTV company fell, and they “asked” us not to post broadcasts for such volumes. So, in fact, not only the news, but also the broadcast branch of our project, which has been running for 7 years, started.

AANBA showed 65% of matches last season and plans to aim for 70% of matches in Russian and 10-15 in English next season.

The AANBA audience ranges from 500-1000 spectators at night matches and 2000 to 5000 at morning matches. The most popular game of last season is the first in a series between Boston and the Nets. It was watched live by 12,000 people

Advantage : “First, volumes. Secondly, commentators, - explains Anton Kuzmichev. “We have a pretty diverse staff of casters. Each of them carries its own informational agenda. Regarding the work of commentators, we often talk about the moments where they need to improve, because without this the comments would stagnate, but we are not satisfied with this situation. One way or another, almost all the actors see themselves as future professionals, although even now our approach is close to this. Another important episode of our work is the absence of donathunting. Since, in fact, commentators receive money from donations, we regulated them. Several left-wing people left the staff of commentators, who not only abused support, but also spoiled the organics of the broadcasts. This is no longer possible to meet in the expanses of aanba during the last season. This is all the more so."

Weakness : AANBA has two main problems that are typical for self-grown projects on the Internet.

The first one is hanging broadcasts, which sometimes slow down at the most interesting place.

The second is commentators without a professional school. They sometimes forget about what is happening and focus on donations. Many of those who are involved in commenting on matches at AANBA work at games of provincial Russian basketball clubs or amateur matches, but there are no people of the level and fame of Gomelsky, Materansky and Znamensky here.

Anton Kuzmichev says that they are working on both: “I think that without NBA broadcasts on public TV, the basketball fandom has no future. Any rights cost money. And it is not very clear how you can recoup the night spot on paid subscriptions. If suddenly such a topic is revived in Russia, then we would be happy to fly into it. The idea of ​​"pirates" in the eyes of the public is slightly different from what is happening now. We ourselves used to sin with amateur comments with a share of peppercorns, but current trends have forced us to reconsider our position. In order not to lose the audience, we left something of our former self, the ability to communicate with a chat, for example, and significantly added in the technical aspect, focusing on immersion in the sport.”

Wild Sport

The Wild Sport VKontakte group started eight years ago with NBA broadcasts, but gradually mastered more and more other types of basketball. In addition to several matches of the NBA game day, almost the entire Euroleague is shown here (last year - 85%), friendly and official matches of the national teams, several matches of the national championships, with the exception of the VTB League (Spain, Turkey, and this year also France).

In live mode in the Wild Sport group, the NBA final was watched by 2-3 thousand spectators, the EuroBasket or Euroleague final - by 3-4 thousand spectators. Regular matches gather from 300 to 1000 people.

In total, the matches, according to the management of the group, get about 10-15 thousand views.

Advantage: “I think it's the commentators,” says project manager Andrey Levy. - Our studio is quite professional in this regard: many commentators work on television (or have worked on television), they are people with great experience. Plus, we regularly invite such wonderful guests as experts, such as Ivan Lazarev, Mikhail Terekhov, Anton Ponkrashov, Maxim Grigoriev, and other guys. We talk about basketball not only from the point of view of play-by-play, but also from the point of view of tactics, analytics, and some interesting facts.

There is certainly a future for the NBA basketball fandom without public TV coverage. People have been moving away from television for a long time and do not watch television in the modern sense. We follow the US principle. There is national television, there is local television, but a lot of time people spend on online platforms where they buy subscriptions and enjoy life: TNT and ESPN. This is more convenient than when you turn on the channel and they impose on you the match that you are watching. In Russia, it all develops thanks to ideological people who promote themselves. Will it get more financial support? Not sure. But as for the people who are interested, I think yes. For example, we basically do not work with bookmakers, we believe that if a person wants to support, then he does not need to buy a subscription, he can directly support the commentator and the studio. It seems to me that now it is a good platform to give content. Not only in the form of matches, but also in podcasts, documentaries and articles.”

In fact, the main advantage of Wild Sport is that most non-NBA basketball is broadcast here.

Flaw : "I think it's the commentators" could also be the Wild Sport's major flaw. After television broadcasts, the style of commenting on the Internet can be very embarrassing or at least seem unusual - especially when users' opinions and questions are counted right during basketball, the roll call of cities begins or donations are counted. One of the foreign coaches of the VTB League looked at the Wild Sport match of his national team and remained at a loss: “Five facts were mentioned - and all five are wrong.”

Standard lags in broadcasts are also present here.

Topbasket

Since last season, the most popular Youtube channel about basketball in Russian has a special telegram where broadcasts of NBA matches are posted with the original sound track. Usually during the season there appear three or four of the most interesting matches of the game day.

advantage: English (if you know it) and emphasis on the most interesting. Topbasket focuses not so much on an attractive sign, but on the quality of the spectacle. Therefore, noteworthy games of some “Houston” and “Oklahoma” get here, if they managed to give out a sparkling ending or comeback, go into overtime or put a winning baser.

Disadvantage: English (if you don't know it) and no live broadcasts. Matches begin to be uploaded in the morning Moscow time (approximately at 9-10 o'clock), and there is no way to follow your favorite team in real time. Plus, you have to make some efforts not to find out the result in advance (apparently, with these goals, a separate channel was allocated for matches).

Photo: Gettyimages.ru/Kelly Defina, Gregory Shamus; nba.com Youtube

NBA broadcast. How is everything in the USA? ESPN sports channel.

An article about the American cable sports channel ESPN (originally Entertainment and Sport Programming), which broadcasts live sports in the United States. ESPN is one of the leaders in sports broadcasting, the main content of the channel is live sports broadcasts or recordings, as well as sports-oriented news programs. In addition, the channel broadcasts sports talk shows and sports documentaries.

Basketball Day

Cleveland, Ohio - Friday, October 30, 2015 at 6:00 pm. It's been a full 90 minutes before the Cleveland Cavaliers, last season's NBA finalists, take the court against their Eastern Conference rivals the Miami Heat.

I stand awkwardly in the locker room of the Cleveland Cavaliers, just six feet from LeBron James, arguably the single greatest athlete of his generation... in any sport. James is finishing up an exercise that is part of his intense pre-game workouts, tailored exclusively to his unique needs.

This mesmerizing look is directed backstage. Later, the world will witness the irresistible force of his movement towards the basket. He flew a few feet in the air, like a real superhero, and hung on a basket. But I can definitely see how much effort he is making to prepare his body for the upcoming game. Just like millions of viewers.

As James makes his way to his dressing room, the ESPN operator kneels dangerously close to the athlete's personal space. This is an important evening for all sports lovers. This is the first box office broadcast of a brand new NBA season. The best team will take to the court. And what that means technologically is staggering.

Technicians, as well as the ESPN team, had to work to make the broadcast flawless. A team of technicians arrived at the building 11 hours before the start of the broadcast. Meanwhile, producers and journalists prefer to interview players in the morning. Of course, this is all very distracting.

A total of 60 announcers, cameramen, production staff and technicians traveled 550 miles from ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Connecticut to capture the game. This game will also be seen by TV viewers on UK screens. This was made possible thanks to a new agreement with BT Sport, under which up to 7 games per week can be broadcast on TV.

Inside an ESPN truck

The game starts around 8 pm. Inside the ESPN branded truck, isolated from the bedlam of the stands at the Quicken Loans arena, all is serene. Sounds are very muffled. In charge of this place is Tim Corrigan, the NBA's senior coordinating producer at ESPN, who has held this position for the entire 14 years the NBA has been live. Seven employees in a truck monitor 150 monitors that feed data from 12 cameras.

Corrigan moves calmly and confidently. The team easily maneuvers the moving parts. It depends on them that millions of viewers will see live. They turn on replays, switching between reporters and commentators, display statistics, direct the focus of cameras, and include commercial breaks. They do it all while clearly enjoying and commenting on the game like a group of fans watching a screen at home.

“Well done, big guy!” exclaims Tim as 7-foot Miami center Hassan Whiteside sends the ball into the basket. “How did he even see that pass?” says reporter Doris Burke, who is responsible for the key moments of the game.

Data is being relayed to ESPN 2's digital center, which is 850 miles away in sleepy Connecticut. Information is transmitted to one of the 26 satellites in 0. 25 seconds, and only after that the image is transmitted to the viewers' screens. With the standard delay, the spectators see the goal 7 seconds after the player actually scores it. The crowd of fans in the arena will still be cheering when you jump off the couch.

The world's most advanced sports television

Amidst glorious fall foliage in New England is perhaps the world's most advanced television production. Built in 2014 at a cost of $125m (about £81m), ESPN Digital Center 2 occupies 193,000 square feet of space. From the outside it may seem that these are complexes of some institution.

ESPN headquarters

Inside are five one-stop studios that create flagship shows such as Sports Center, NFL Sunday Countdown, NBA Coast to Coast and Baseball Tonight. There are also six production rooms that can remotely run shows from their various studios around the world, 16 editor rooms and four audio control rooms.

It's also home to an auditorium that houses ESPN employees with some of the world's greatest jobs. Dozens of them are tasked with watching live sporting events and celebrating highlights to be shown on various webcasts. - How to get this job? – I ask.

However, DC2 is not just a paradise for sports fans, it is a grotto for connoisseurs of technical innovation

Broadcast facts

• 12 cameras are needed to cover everything that happens in the stadium
• 60 is the number of ESPN employees who monitor live ” NBA games
• Technical staff arrives at the arena 11 hours before the start of the game
• 7 - this is exactly how many seconds there is a delay between the live broadcast and what the audience sees at home
• Microphones always present on 2 players Heat @ Cavs
• 14 is the number of years ESPN has covered live NBA games
• 2 I-MOVIX X10 super slow motion cameras required for slow motion shooting
• I-MOVIX X10 cameras shoot at 600 fps
• Main truck has 150 monitors

The new building was designed by ESPN's technology team to be completely future-proof and format-agnostic, allowing the network to work seamlessly with any workflow. An amazing 6-meter fiber optic cable comes to the rescue. Pretty soon the whole building will be 100 percent IP based.

Surprisingly, real-time capture, editing, and posting on social platforms are getting ready as quickly as possible. The staff does their best to keep the broadcast running smoothly. If the sports venue has optical fiber, Bristol can get these footage in as little as 0.03 seconds.

The EXE-X2 IP User Router has 2,304 ports, each operating at 10 Gbps. Half of the capacity is currently being used. Using JPG2000 compression, the processor can process 4K video and, if necessary, 8K footage as quickly as possible. No upgrades will be required here for a very, very long time.

Shooting an ESPN TV program

The 4K revolution will be streaming online… but not soon

ESPN is, in theory, ready to broadcast live in 4K resolution. It can easily capture and output in Ultra HD resolution. Now it remains only to wait for other industries to catch up with innovations.

Without the support of cable providers and the necessary local cable infrastructure, there is little point in a company distributing content with next generation pixel count.

In their own testing, ESPN is still testing what 4K cameras will bring to broadcasts. Producer Tim Corrigan remains unsure whether such a leap could change the paradigm in the same way that the shift from SD to HD could.

“I don't know yet,” he tells reporters in a rare moment of pregame free time. “With 4K, you get wider angles, you can zoom in and not lose clarity.

“For example, you can see a blade of grass in a field without losing the big picture. From this point of view, it's great."

Doris Burke, a highly respected reporter, studio host and analyst, adds: "While this sounds terrible, I saw football broadcasts in the center, and I was very impressed with the picture."

For the ESPN NBA team, technological innovation is an added value for the viewer. Today, 12 cameras can be installed in the arena, but during the broadcast of the 2015 final there were 38, including 8 outside the arena. Right now, these additions are more useful than the 4K upgrade.

“When every moment can matter, we can't afford to miss a beat,” adds Corrigan. "These additional angles help us tell the story of the game better than 4K right now."

While basketball fans may have to settle for broadcasting NBA games in 2K instead of 4K, ESPN is moving forward and innovating. Modern I-MOVIX cameras are often located behind the rear panels, offering video captured at 600 frames per second.

“You see LeBron running towards the basket, he's heading straight for you. It's incredible,” adds Corrigan.

“They offer great talent for our analysts. I remember how they tried to distract Kobe Bryant by any means, but his eyes never lost the basket.

“We work with the best players in the world… just look at the focus. Visually, it looks so impressive, the viewer gets the feeling that he himself is in the stands. ”

Facts about the ESPN Digital Center

• 26 satellites within the center
• 35 - the number of channels that the Torus satellite can process simultaneously
• 92 Terabytes of video data that the DC2 ESPN router can process per second. This is equivalent to 60,000 HD sports events at the same time
• 6 million feet of fiber optic cable stretched from Hartford, Connecticut to Orlando, Florida.
• 95,000 is the number of live broadcasts that are sent out via ESPN per year
• 127 - Monitors installed in ESPN Sports Center
• 45 petabytes of data processed by ESPN per day, twice the Google average
• 5,000 hours of content per year ESPN broadcasts to BT Sport in the UK
• It would take 57 years for one person to watch the stuff that ESPN releases in the year
• 193,000 square feet of Digital Center 2
• 193,000 square feet of Digital Center 2
• 16 - number of editors' rooms
• 16 - number of editors' rooms

ESPN Digital Center

In this broadcast, two players received a microphone to compete in the Heat vs Cavs tournament, the latest innovation usually reserved for finals.

“Our fans love this solution,” says Corrigan. "They love having our cameras in the crowd, they love being interviewed during the game."

Thumb-sized microphones and each player's jersey has a section sewn in to accommodate them. Both ESPN and the NBA carefully listen to the sound before it ever gets close to the main truck, not to mention our TVs.

After the game, Cavs star Mo Williams, one of the players with a microphone, told Digital Spy: “I hope they didn't hear words that my mom wouldn't like.

“I am absolutely unaware of what I am saying. The audience sees the real me. I don't even know what I said. This is a sport, and I am sure that real emotions are priceless.

After the final whistle...

After a game that Cleveland won again, I return to the Cavaliers locker room again.

After the employees have been given the green light, about 20 journalists with cameras, voice recorders and iPhones rush to James' vacant locker and form a semicircle. Soon the hero of the day himself appears, ready to complete another mission - to give an interview.

14 hours after the ESPN team arrives at the arena, they also begin to gather, but not before sending LeBron's interview and remaining post-game comments to home base. These materials will be shown in the news the next day.

Tomorrow it will be a new story. The sports news cycle never ends, which is why DC2 in Bristol is fully staffed 24/7, 365 days a year. Even last year, when a brutal winter in New England led to schools and businesses being closed for several weeks, ESPN didn't interrupt its broadcasts.

But again, this is what technology has made possible. As ESPN staff — including producer Tim Corrigan or Doris Burke — likes to say — and as thousands of NBA players say every day — we will address issues as they come.”

Beginning in the 2015/16 season, BT Sport will broadcast live NBA games per week, including every game of the Conference Finals and NBA Finals, on BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and ESPN on BT Sport.

Translated by https://stream-park.ru, the original can be found here. We also recommend reading the material about broadcasting a basketball match in VR format. Thank you for your attention!

Published: 22.06.2019

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