Mavs already have this.

Blazers did this about 2 years ago. Even had a sign up page for sending out free antennas to people who didn’t have one.

Free should be in every fucking market

When one owner steals taxpayer money for a bullshit stadium all peasants should be able to watch for free

This is just smart to build a fan base. A whole bunch of 90s kids were braves fans because they were so accessible

Should apply to every team in the league. Greed creates these monetized hurdles for a local person to watch their own damn team.

Ishbia saved the nba fans

Classic Hawks W. Unironically love our organization, even if we aren’t winning chips.

As I said, we’re going to see more of this since the FanDuel networks are gone.

You can also add the Heat to the list.

Bulls were over-the-air until a year ago. Now they’re on an app my smart TV doesn’t have.

Bucks are streaming games this year on My24. Really happy they’ve started to do this and make games more available like the NFL

Jazz have already done this

“fuck a standard” -Ted Leonsis trying to get Monumental Plus subscribers

The Bulls and White Sox did this…then like halfway thru the Sox season they said “Actually nah, fuck that” and stopped broadcasting over the air and made it a subscription instead.

Fuck Jerry Reinsdorf.

Gotta love the Kroenkes squeezing nuggets fans with their altitude plus bullshit they want us to pay for.

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I believe the Heat also made the move this offseason

*cries in Toronto*

Suns did this first no? Thought we were first to leave Bally 3 years ago

James Dolan furiously trying to figure out how to make Knicks games even harder to watch

Pretty common. Glad Atlanta finally jumped on the Bandwagon

Holy fuck!!!

I retract 10% of my slander towards Tony Ressler. It’s been insane to me that the Hawks benefit to about 300 million a year in tax breaks in a city with SOOO many issues

At least this way our bread and circuses are slightly freer (shout out To Juvenal, not to be confused with the southern American poet Juvenile who gave us Back Dat Azz Up).

This is precisely how everything used to work.

Amazing! Lets go Arod, make this a thing in Minny!!

As Roger Daltrey once said “meet the new boss, same as the old boss” (i.e., sports team TV rights from the 1950s to 1970s).

A lot of NHL teams are going this way as well thank god

The Clippers broadcast 11 of their games on KTLA last season. A $30 high def antenna picked them up just fine. I hope they do more this season.

If your taxes go to the stadium in any way you should be able to watch the hosted events on TV.

Hopefully the Magic will also do this.

Good for them that’s how it should be for all the markets 

To anybody thinking the reception on antenna would be terrible just because it’s an antenna, they’ve gotten way, way better. In a lot of areas, if you have good reception it can be high def and look just like cable. Worth a $20 shot to see if it works in your area to save some money on cable packages. I can’t get ABC where I am unfortunately but I use it to watch games that are on NBC during the regular season a bunch

ABC and nbc also broadcast some national games live over the air for free. That’s what my parents still watch lol

Ted Leonsis will NEVER do this 🤬

Miss watching Nets games on YES

Assume Fox Broadcast viewing positions!

Cleveland used to do this during LeBron’s 1st stint. Then, greed happened. Thanks Dan

that was the case when I used to watch basketball games on TV. since the late 90’s it has either been watching highlights, reading about the game, or more rarely watching the games in person.

The Cavs absolutely have to do this. Local games only airing on cable channels started by gambling companies that will be out of business within 18 months is ludicrous.

Hmm? The suns has been doing that since the Durant years, and I love it, even the current summer league games are free on TV.

Even if every team did this I’d still be screwed 😂 my team is 800 miles away.

With how much of a tax dump stadiums are this is the least they could do…

Wow, a rare instance of deshittification!

This is great. Now both Hawks fans will be able to watch.

The problem I’ve found, is that youtube tv doesn’t carry the station the games are on. And if you want to watch it on your phone. you still need to get a subscription service. And depending on where the transmitter is, not just any antenna will work very well. But, it’s still technically free!

The Bally -> FanDuel -> Collapse pipeline has freed us all from the yoke of shitty paid streams

The hawks are really doing anything they can to gain more fans, it’s admirable

Cries in Wizards, it’s monumental sports network or the high seas

Do they offer free streaming as well? Seems like that should be a thing too, because all the other things you mentioned there usually cost money to stream.

Denver folks can’t even see games through YouTube tv…

trae young was really holding this franchise back, everything looking up after dumping that little turd

Still waiting for the Pacers to do something after the FanDuel implosion…

i live two hours from charlotte, the fact that I can’t watch 90% of our games is fucking ridiculous

As a Hawks fan, this is great news. The “sources” I used last season to watch local broadcast either only had the opponent’s broadcasters or the audio would be out of sync for the local one. It’s not a real Hawks game without Bob and Nique! I was watching games when it was Steve Smith with Mr. Rathbun on random cable channels.

The collapse of cable is still having ripple effects, both economically and culturally. This is one of the few times it’s worked out in the consumer’s favor.

You mean like it used to be? I stopped watching the NBA when they went to cable.

I wouldn’t expect this for long. The league is looking to bundle a bunch of teams rights to sell to a streamer like Amazon.

Im so for the move and hate league for running up costs, but holy are “consumers” (when aint one when case) in a relentless state of making movement look bad.

RIP your local team as not being paid.

RIP NBA as not being paid.

RIP maintaining rosters and star players as arent being paid.

Edit: this is JUST a promotion tool as league is struggling to maintain and grow fandom.