Australian NBA.com Portal

aal04 · Post #1 » by **aal04** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:37 am

Sportal.com is what Aussies get forwarded to instead of NBA.com.

its the worse piece of poop ever.

Its incompatible with Chrome, and it posts data way too delayed. Ive missed entire games because of it.

It still has Wash v Bulls in 3rd quarter, and the game is finished after overtime.

Also their articles are a joke. Spurs vs Warriors game a while ago. Front page. Bogut vs Mills. Lol wtf. Yeah theyre Aussies, but as patriotic as I am Im not watching it for them.

FIrst thing i do is press the NBA.com link, but its crap how we have to go through the portal every friggen time.

they must have given an arm and a leg for the license to nba.com.

DRK · Post #2 » by **DRK** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:41 am

I just click straight to the nba.com site.
Sportal is a pile of steaming trash. Even the website's design makes it look cheap, and trash.

kdthunderup · Post #3 » by **kdthunderup** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:42 am

Its the worst piece of **** in existence. The NBA box scores are also 30 minutes behind real time consistently. Do they seriously expect anyone to use it?

EmperorLocky · Post #4 » by **EmperorLocky** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:48 am

This is probably the worse thing in my life. Every week I have to set it to the US NBA.com as it resets back to Sportal on a weekly basis. Hopefully the knob jockeys lose money from it and lose the license.

First world probs definitely but to be fair even third world countries don't have to deal with Sportal.

JordanL · Post #5 » by **JordanL** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 5:10 am

EmperorLocky wrote:This is probably the worse thing in my life. Every week I have to set it to the US NBA.com as it resets back to Sportal on a weekly basis. Hopefully the knob jockeys lose money from it and lose the license.

First world probs definitely but to be fair even third world countries don't have to deal with Sportal.

Assuming Windows:

1. Click Start
2. Right click on notepad
3. Select "Run as administrator"
4. File > Open
5. Open /WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
6. Go to the bottom of the file and create a new line
7. Type: "nba.com 157.166.248.245" (without the quotes) (It's possible you may need to reverse the order, depending on setup)
8. Save the file
9A. In a command prompt type: "ipconfig /flushdns"
9B. Restart your browsers
10. You'll never be redirected to Sportal again

Assuming Mac:

1. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
2. Type: "sudo nano /private/etc/hosts" (without the quotes)
3. Go to the bottom of the file and create a new line
4. Type: "nba.com 157.166.248.245" (without the quotes) (It's possible you may need to reverse the order, depending on setup)
5. Save the file (Control-O to save, press enter, then Control-X)
6. In the Terminal, type: "dscacheutil -flushcache" (without the quotes)
7. Restart your browsers
8. You'll never be redirected to Sportal again

EDIT:

If anyone follows these directions and gets lost or confused, PM me.

Pure_Basketball · Post #6 » by **Pure_Basketball** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:24 am

I never go to nba.com anyway, I use ESPN which I think is a much better interface.

Post #7 » by **Moonbeam** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 7:28 am

I agree that it's awful.

Post #8 » by **GimmeDat** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:20 am

It's shocking, so pointless.

Seriously, I'm getting updates like "Mills played 14 minutes in game 1!" as their headline, it's really frustrating. They have their own box scores and other pages and they're all inferior to the main website as well.

I always click on through to the main site, but it's a little tedium that annoys me big time.

Post #9 » by **Basti** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 8:28 am

I can feel you guys. Whenever I'm in Germany I get redirected to another, probably just as horrible page, too. And it takes like 10 times to get actually directed to nba.com when clicking the button/setting for the official US page.

Thankfully I live in another country where nobody cares about basketball which doesn't give the NBA any ideas to sell the rights to a crappy 2nd party.

Cracklenuts · Post #10 » by **Cracklenuts** » Wed Apr 23, 2014 9:00 am

I just go straight to the nba league pass website to watch the games. Or espn nba page.

The nba.com site has always been terrible since the late 90's.

Post #11 » by **Moonbeam** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:52 am

JordanL wrote:
EmperorLocky wrote:This is probably the worse thing in my life. Every week I have to set it to the US NBA.com as it resets back to Sportal on a weekly basis. Hopefully the knob jockeys lose money from it and lose the license.

First world probs definitely but to be fair even third world countries don't have to deal with Sportal.

Assuming Windows:

1. Click Start
2. Right click on notepad
3. Select "Run as administrator"
4. File > Open
5. Open /WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
6. Go to the bottom of the file and create a new line
7. Type: "nba.com 157.166.248.245" (without the quotes)
8. Save the file
9A. In a command prompt type: "ipconfig /flushdns"
9B. Restart your browsers
10. You'll never be redirected to Sportal again

Assuming Mac:

1. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
2. Type: "sudo nano /private/etc/hosts" (without the quotes)
3. Go to the bottom of the file and create a new line
4. Type: "nba.com 157.166.248.245" (without the quotes)
5. Save the file (Control-O to save, press enter, then Control-X)
6. In the Terminal, type: "dscacheutil -flushcache" (without the quotes)
7. Restart your browsers
8. You'll never be redirected to Sportal again

EDIT:

If anyone follows these directions and gets lost or confused, PM me.

Thank you so much for this! In Step 7 for windows, I had to type "157.166.248.245 nba.com" instead, but it has worked like a charm!

Dupp · Post #12 » by **Dupp** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:47 am

NBA.com USA (which I use over Aussie alt ) is awful too. Doesn't even display live game scores on home page

nike1 · Post #13 » by **nike1** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 4:09 am

you didnt have to do what that guy said with i.p addresses.

i did this

using the URL:
www.nba.com/gr/reflectIntl.html?gr=aust ... &&dur=1000

A Prophet · Post #14 » by **A Prophet** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 6:24 am

Hey, there's a firefox/chrome extension called hola for things like this.
Here's the link http://hola.org/

Mass Rig · Post #15 » by **Mass Rig** » Thu Apr 24, 2014 7:50 am

You probably don't want to see the Italian one.