Hopefully there stream was better than, Friday was reasonable but today was very poor, we have to do better.

It's the Blitz. Best coverage in years if had watched it years ago.

Like the billions of eyeballs watching when they broadcast to China lolz!!

Coverage of the Blitz was way better in 2016 and last year.

Need to sort out there streaming forvsurel

I couldn't watch it on Sunday the stream was to bad and to have a dunk comp with 3 players was a bad idea

Facebook stream with no body watching...great!



What do you mean?

The NBL will stream a selection of games from the 2019-20 Hungry Jack's NBL Season live on Facebook Watch in the U.S.

The partnership with Facebook calls for 52 NBL games featuring NBA Draft prospects LaMelo Ball and RJ Hampton to be streamed on Facebook Watch via the NBL Facebook page.

An additional 23 regular season games (one per round), finals and other highlights will be streamed in Australia and New Zealand on Facebook Watch as part of the agreement.

Ball (Illawarra Hawks) and Hampton (SKY Sport New Zealand Breakers) will play in the NBL as part of its Next Stars program. Both are expected to be selected in next year’s NBA Draft.

NBL Commissioner Jeremy Loeliger said: "This partnership will ensure huge exposure for the NBL in the biggest basketball market in the world.

“It also reinforces our status as the best basketball league in the world outside of the NBA during what is an incredibly exciting time for the sport in Australia and New Zealand.

“There is a lot of interest in Melo and RJ ahead of next year’s NBA draft but also the NBL and basketball here more broadly."

Karren Rogers of Facebook Australia Sports Partnerships said: “We’re thrilled to bring the exciting action of the NBL to Facebook Watch.

“People in the U.S. - especially Ball in the Family fans – will enjoy watching two of basketball’s brightest young stars develop overseas, while those in Australia and New Zealand will now have a new way to watch and interact with the NBL.”

A record 13 Australians played in the NBA last season and 113 NBA players have played in the NBL since its inception in 1979.

The Hungry Jack’s NBL Season tips off on October 3 when Melbourne United plays new crosstown rival South East Melbourne Phoenix in the Throwdown at Melbourne Arena.

LaMelo Ball will play his first game for Illawarra against the Brisbane Bullets on October 6. RJ Hampton will make his debut for the Breakers against Andrew Bogut’s Sydney Kings on October 18. Both games will be available on Facebook Watch for fans in the U.S.

The first Facebook Watch broadcast in Australia and New Zealand will be the opening game of the season on October 3, when Melbourne United and South East Melbourne Phoenix face off in the Throwdown.

#melofactor

ESPN Australian and New Zealand only

It's facebook watch
It’s more than just NBL hype. Facebook is trying to compete with YouTube and other streaming services. it will bring in more viewers to this platform.
It will make a lot of $$$$$$ for Facebook and the NBL over the NBL season and beyond #melofactor

Pulled this from google

Facebook Watch is a video-on-demand service operated by Facebook. ... Facebook Watch's original video content is produced for the company by partners, who earn 55% of advertising revenue while Facebook keeps 45%.

It’s all about more viewers and more $$$$$$$$ in turn = a better NBL

Some blitz stats

NBL Owner Larry Kestelman has declared this year's NBL Blitz in Tasmania the "biggest and best" in the history of the league.

The biggest crowd of the Blitz, 3,521, attended today's final games in Hobart, with a total of 8,647 fans attending games in five locations over four days with packed stadiums across the state.

An estimated 340,000 viewers watched the live stream of the Blitz on Facebook and Twitch around the world. NBL players from all nine clubs visited 21 schools across the state and conducted clinics with children and made a number of other community appearances.

Kestelman said: “This has been the biggest and best NBL Blitz ever with huge crowds and fantastic engagement right across Tasmania.

“Tasmanians have shown they are hungry for NBL and I want to thank everyone who has come out and supported the Blitz this week. The Blitz has also gone around the world via our live stream on Facebook and Twitch.

"it will make a lot of $$$$$$ for Facebook and the NBL over the NBL season"

Maybe a $, but far from $$$$$$




Yeah, 108,000 people tuned in to watch LaMelo's first game. But continue...

Exactly

In 2018 Facebook had 2.8 billion monthly users
It also made

Made 55 billion in revenue in 2018
It owns Instagram that will connect to Lamelo 4.9 million followers and Lonzo's 6.9 million and liangelo’s 2.4 million and ball in the family’s 1.9 million followers that =$$$$$$$$

VTB league plays plenty of money as well, there top teams would certainly give nbl top teams a run for there money, same as Turkey, Greece, France and Germany. Spain is the top of the heap though.

If you throw enough mud some will stick

Facebook watch

Facebook Watch is a video-on-demand service operated by Facebook. ... Facebook Watch's original video content is produced for the company by partners, who earn 55% of advertising revenue while Facebook keeps 45%.

The NBL will earn 55% of the advertising revenues

Facebook already has advertisers ready to go and many more every day.
Facebook watch ads are around 15 sec long and target specific markets.
Potentially millions of Americans will see the NBL this season

Any reason it's just Illawarra and New Zealand games (that adds up to 52) rather than giving Facebook all the games?

Not like they'd run out of bandwidth though

Brazil would watch Kings games and Didi

The us viewers will still see all the NBL teams over the season a few times each.
The Australian nba guys might help support the other NBL teams

Australian fans of Brazilian decent or heritage already following Didi in big numbers.

Didi has a lot of pelicans fans on the teams Twitter page. Maybe the kings games needed to be streamed into the USA as well

In a flow on effect American brands will benefit for free like K mart America, Wilson , Mitchell and ness , Europcar , Aldi USA and under armour USA
on the other side it will benefit Qantas.
MG have been trying to find a way back into the USA for last 10 years after a 30 year absence,it's good for brand awareness.
Chemist warehouse has online sales it could even benefit from this more than they bargained for.
And tourism Australia get some free advertising as well.

^yep

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