How I Watch the Kings

I make sure I have plenty of ice cold Budweiser on hand.

Budweiser, the King of Beers.

And this is how he did it. LOOK AND LEARN.

So I can feed the kids on game night.

And before I get grief about my pizza choices, there is no Round Table or Steve’s Pizza out here. No Jack-in-the-Box, either, and In-n-Out and Five Guys are new additions.

(sigh)Now I’m hungry.

Sactown Royalty is where I learned about ‘ze links’ (atdhe, etc.) I was naive – didn’t even know that stuff existed. After a few failed attempts at getting the kings onto my own TV or computer (it’s actually complicated, with the stupid blackouts and such), the links saved my butt for a couple of seasons.
This year, I finally got it figured out, and I’ve got Comcast Sports Net through DirecTV. Sitting on the couch for the Minnesota game was a definite improvement over sitting in front of the computer.

Kids to bed at eight, a little wifey time, then game on.

and the Kings. Two Nor Cal favorites that always go good together…

maybe one game or two games the past three seasons because of my DVR. I’m with you Ziller, if it wasn’t for CSN and my DVR I would not be half as much a fan as I am.

Also, the new Coors cans that show you when they’re cold….now that’s technology!

What I typically do on game night is start watching the game about a half hour after it starts, and through fast forwarding commercials and so on, I usually end up almost at real time right at the end of the game.

Sharing a house with 3 females, I find my DVR is always full with episodes of Glee and Ellen. It’s a challenge to free enough space to record a game. And, forget about back 2 back games. So, whether I watch the came live or when I get home, the DVD is always recording. That way when I’m done, I can erase the DVR but still have a DVD to go back and watch when someone on this site points out something that I missed when I first watched.

I was relegated to watching the kings play on nights when the national media decided I was allowed to. Things got better with the Webber trade and the Williams draft as the kings were more fun and exciting to watch. Around this time my family got Internet at our home, and I was able to follow on their progress closer on espn. However, after 03 or 04 (or was it 05? It’s all a blur) it was near impossible to find games to watch, maybe one or two a season and I was following almost purely through box scores and paragraph long espn game recaps. As of last season I use league pass broadband as my apartment comes with cable paid in the rent, otherwise I would have it on satellite. I have never before had the ability to watch the king play every game night. It has made my experience as a fan one hundred fold better.

bring out the big screen (if ya know what I mean) and play every time the King’s score I score, and then……..ok , its not really Ho’s …its Ho-Hos and Cheetos, and I’m alone in a dark room. But, The big screen part is true.if ya know what I mean.
Sigh……

I started following the Kings in 86 (wasn’t a big basketball fan before that). The earliest I remember was when it was Grant Napear and Ted Green who were the sideline commentators. I loved the references to the Channel 31 broadcasts that Ziller mentioned, even about Olden Polynice. And when the games weren’t televised, I absolutely loved listening to Gary Gerould call the game while I shot nerf hoops in my bedroom.

Haven’t had a TV much when I moved away from Sacramento for college and work, and in recent years before finding out about bootlegs online, I was stuck with refreshing the stats page on NBA.com or ESPN.com

But the worst was when I did my year of study in Florence, Italy. It was the 1998-1999 season when the Kings had Chris and Vlade and rookie Jason Williams. I didn’t have internet access, so I had to buy the Italian newspapers and comb thru them for NBA scores. If I got USA Today, they were always a day behind. It was amazing to learn that my hometown team was doing surprisingly well, and it was also sad that I missed seeing any second of that entire season. And then when they in the the playoffs against Utah my hopes were skyhigh and all I could do was wait for the results in the newspaper.

Currently, I am in LA with Direct TV (first time experience, so I don’t know exactly how everything works) and it seems that I get the pregame shows with Jerry and Grant, but the game is blacked out and instead they show MMA. So I have to watch the games on the other team’s stations. Kinda sucks cuz I am missing all the Jerryisms.

nuff said

I now live out of area…actually, I am in the Land-o-[redacted].

I was thinking about getting NBA LP broadband, because stupid AT&T U-Verse does not offer NBALP, and I am not switching from stupid AT&T U-verse, because my landlord pays for it.

Thus, my question:

I have a PS3 and can get to the NBA.com LP page, but I cannot get the actual game to display. If I end up getting NBALPBB, I’d like to watch it on my big screen. Has anyone figured out how to get the games to play over their PS3, or is my only option for big screen viewing to get the HDMI adapter from my MacBook to the TV?

Take out Chinese (Golden Dragon, preferrably), beer, dog to split the couch with, and a quiet house.

Its a relaxing ritual. I don’t mind the commercials, but whaI don’t want to hear about politics, nagging pains, or the latest entertainment news from the peanut gallery. I would rather watch the game quietly at 1am than watch the game with a background of unrelated jibber-jabber.

I get a lot of satisfaction by fast-forwarding past Peaches. I am not held hostage to and being subjected to all the advertising.

And to be honest. I am outnumbered at home. More non-basketball fans than fans and I often record the game for later viewing.

Also, there is nothing better than reviewing plays yourself to see what really happened. For instance, I reviewed the first half of the last game and Omri Casspi did not get any rebound because Landry boxed somebody out. Still have to review the rest of the game, but Casspi fought and scrapped for those rebounds.

I was also a young teen in the 90’s taping games to VHS and re-watching them. Out of everything that has come along in the past 15 years, I’d have to say the clarity of 1080P and HDTV are the things I’m most appreciative of. I can’t believe we used to watch such blurry programs on TV. I love my Samsung and I don’t watch any program that isn’t in HD.

full year watching in HD. Upgraded to a Samsung HD. If I can’t watch the game live, I usually don’t watch it. I’ll just catch highlights. For some reason, I just can’t watch any sports game on DVR. It HAS to be live.

Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.

 This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

Not a lot of good times to talk about. I remember the 1st time the Kings were featured for a minute or two on ESPN. It was they night they broke the NBA record for consecutive road losses.

First, to answer the question, my preferred technology when watching at home is my Samsung(!) 23" flat screen TV that is in my office, which allows me to also utilize my HP computer for the StR game thread and the NBA.com box score.

Second, I have taken to deleting anyone that posts illegal streams or requests same. If I have to delete the same person over and over again, it will lead to a day in the box, followed by a day in the box with Grant, followed by a day in the box with Grant and Mike, followed by a banishment if there is anything left of you by that point. Thank you, and don’t forget to vote early and vote often.

tht alows mee 2 tipe witout tiepoes frm a smrt phone.

subject to LPBB and online streams. We do get 3 games televised here in HD, but they are usually the TNT games or a Bucks/Andrew Bogut game. There is 1 nationally televised game here in Australia in HD(Kings-Clips Nov 26), and I might not be feeling all that well that day, as games generally start between 9am-12pm

The ILP isn’t good enough quality for me to transmit to my HD TV via a HDMI cable because my internet is only up to 8000k, which you would think would be sufficient, but just isn’t.

Instead I usually just watch it on my laptop(half screen game, half game thread). I wish that there was even a cable company here that provided league pass, and DVR capabilities.

We are so behind the times. But one day I will be as lucky as you all.