Next week’s Boomers and Opals Olympic warm up games against China have started to appear on ESPN’s schedules.
Tuesday’s Boomers game isn’t showing up as being shown live just yet, but there are some mini replays listed on Wednesday (on ESPN’s website), next Wednesday’s Opals and next Thursday’s Boomers games are though. Next Friday’s Opals game is listed on ESPN’s website (but not on Foxtel’s guide, who have Cornhole and Hot Dog eating replays on at that time, July 4th I guess).
July 15th and 16th’s Boomers games against the USA and Serbia in Abu Dhabi are also showing up on ESPN’s website nothing for the July 21st game against France in Orléans yet.
Edit: All Boomers and Opals games in Melbourne are on the schedule now
Tues July 2 7:30pm AEST - Boomers vs China
Wed July 3 7:30pm AEST - Opals vs China
Thurs July 4 7:30pm AEST - Boomers vs China
Fri July 5 7:30pm AEST - Opals vs China
Also a bunch of “USA Basketball Showcase” games
Thurs July 11 12:30pm AEST - USA vs Canada (M) - Las Vegas
Tues July 16 1:00am* AEST - USA vs Boomers - Abu Dhabi
Wed July 17 1:00am* AEST - Boomers vs Serbia - Abu Dhabi
Thurs July 18 1:00am* AEST - USA vs Serbia (M) - Abu Dhabi
Sun July 21 5:00am AEST - USA vs South Sudan (M) - London
Tues July 23 5:00am AEST - USA vs Germany (M) - London
*USA Basketball’s website has the Abu Dhabi games tipping off at 2am AEST, I imagine this is a miss time by ESPN.
Women’s Team USA also play in the WNBA All-Star game (against a league all star team) which is 10:30am Sun July 21 (AEST) on ESPN2. There’s also a few replays of a USA Women’s vs Germany on July 22, but they don’t play until July 24 Australia time.
These games are now listed on Kayo Freebies along with day time coverage of Rollers and Gliders taking on Japan (men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams) and the men’s and women’s Gangurrus taking on China in 3x3 during the day.
Day time coverage starts at noon AEST Tuesday and Wednesday, 1:30pm Thursday.
Just like last night but I don’t think they are court side as you couldn’t see them with the court-side officials table where they normally called NBL games
There is a point comparing, because the discussion here is about value for money. If you are getting enough value out of all four (i.e. consuming enough content), then there is a case for it being cheaper. If you are only consuming the same amount of content through the four combined that ESPN via Kayo is providing, then it is a massive overpay.
