I’m not normally one to write a review burn felt like I needed to on this one. I live the app in the sense I get to see recaps of the games not televised here in the UK. Only probables I have with it now that previous versions game you the option to watch a game recap with scores hidden. Now you have to go into the game, select to show scores then scroll down to click on the recap. For someone like me who whatever sport it is doesn’t like to know the score before watching highlights/recaps this is very annoying. I don’t understand why you’ve taken this feature away. I literally have to squint my eyes after pressing show scores and scroll down and try find the game recap and click on it just so I can enjoy it without knowing the score. Previous versions had this option available so why has it been removed. I get it’s too late into the season/playoffs to change this but please take this on board for next season. Please make it so it is possible to have the scores hidden but access the game recap without showing what the final game score was. That was people like me can enjoy the highlights and actually not know the result.

The NBA season has been up and running for weeks and despite constant complaints from basketball fans and users this app is still awful. The developers have took something that worked last season and ruined it. My first issue is that despite paying for a subscription and having reported the matter several times to NBA Support I am still unable to watch a game through my Apple TV box. The app opens and all images are there (at times with unwanted spoilers despite having results hidden which is another downgrade on this app from previously) However select to watch any game live or on demand and you get the error message stating that the data is missing. So I then stream from my phone to the tv which is a lottery as to how well it works. The only reliable way of watching the game is on my phone and I did not pay the price to watch on a small screen. Once watching a game on demand the editing is abysmal. Then throw in the subtitles running across the screen that it is a lottery whether you can get rid of.And before I get the same copy and paste developer response that I see constantly here please be aware I have already reported the matter repeatedly to NBA Support, my app is the latest version, my internet is reliable and fast, I have cleared every cookie etc, I have deleted, reinstalled and logged back into the app on all platforms. The error is with your product which worked just fine last season!

After the most recent update, getting tired of the NBA platform in general, couldn’t login to my account earlier in the month which took a week for support to resolve, tried to stream last night’s game on web browser, it hogs cpu/memory to a staggering amount, locks up the browser and fundamentally doesn’t stream (plays 1 second, buffers for 20 - just the nba site, other streaming platforms fine, 350mb fibre connection etc), switched to iPad to try there, can’t rotate the screen so it’s essentially upside down so I can’t prop the iPad up to watch. The option to hide scores apparently isn’t synced across platforms (who knows why seems like pretty basic stuff), so after setting it twice in quick succession on the website and the iPad app, I’ve opened the iPhone app to have the game ruined anyway as the score is there front and center and the option to hides scores is of course disabled. Xbox app whilst recently updated was shocking for the longest time, development across the board just seems poor, constantly find myself frustrated just trying to fundamentally use the service I’m paying for (I don’t need surveys and fancy stats, I just want to watch the game and struggle to do that half the time lately) if I’m not wrestling with one ridiculous problem I’m finding another. Likely cancelling subscription.

As others have said, forget casting as that’s properly broken. No game download option despite being described as a Premium feature. Doesn’t remember where you left a game if you pick it up in a second viewing. Painful to skip through a stream and when you do video resumes in ultra low quality as though you’re watching it through an old school dial up connection. All the above used to work flawlessly, thanks Microsoft for breaking a perfectly decent and well functioning app. Edit: I see download for offline viewing has now been removed as a feature in the app description, the only difference now between premium and standard it seems is the ability to play on two devices at the same time. Who on earth thought it was a good idea to enforce a portrait aspect ratio on a tablet with most of the non-game pages, leaving much of the screen with cropped with borders. A very poor effort all ‘round I’m afraid. Edit: In addition to the now well documented problems with this app what on earth has happened with the game editing, is it being carried out by a bot? Constant chunks of gameplay missing, sometimes a game will cut to a timeout or half-time mid-shot! We are then treated to all of the timeout and half-time footage uninterrupted, what’s that all about!?Jan 23 update - We’ll it’s hard to imagine the devs could find new ways to break the app but they’ve achieved it, the streams and active playing window buttons now don’t work (on a mobile device) requiring you to keep mashing them to get a response. How bug ridden versions of this app continue to be released at this stage with the continuing dev response to delete and reinstall etc. is totally beyond me.