Show HN: My NBA + Twitter mashup

Cool idea. I'm a diehard Washington Wizards fan (sad, I know) and tend to unfollow a lot of players in favor of reports/beat writers/bloggers. The tweets are just more substantive for basketball junkies. A couple of random thoughts:

1) Remove the directed tweets -- i.e. "@user blah blah blah"

2) Beat writers/bloggers act as a filter and tend to retweet interesting player tweets anyway

3) It'd be awesome to see a real-time, in-game twitter dashboard like how you're displaying things now, but with those bloggers/reporters. It can be hard to keep track of it all on a single-line twitter feed... maybe a tweet that gets a lot of "action" somehow (retweets, replies, not sure how you'd measure it) could be displayed more prominently.

I really like this! Admittedly, I am not a roundball enthusiast and know little of the sport, so take my 2-cents for what they are worth.

I've clicked around a bit, just to get a feel for the app, and it seems really nice. I love the transitions when selecting a team - very nice.. I also really like how resizing and scaling is handled - it seems that lot of effort was put into how the layout and contents shift around on resize and scale... Very nice.

One small potential enhancement (solely aesthetics) would be to apply the same UI transition behavior when clicking the site logo so that it smoothly transitions back to home just as it does when selecting a team.

In any case, Kudos! Nice looking site - I am sharing this out to my non-HN, pro-basketball, Twitter using friends!

I actually started doing something similar to follow my own teams (thought someday I'd expand but just never have). Anyhow, one thing we've found is that player tweets are generally worthless and as others have already noted the bloggers/writers and just conversational tweets surrounding teams are often more informative.

Here is my page (which is not near as nice as yours but I really just built it for me to follow news regarding my Chiefs!):

http://sportszealots.com/1-Kansas-City-Chiefs.html

Looks awesome! Great idea and execution. I tweeted it at Jalen Rose and Bill Simmons.

Minor things:

- You're throwing a bunch of log statements right now. Might be taking down the javascript in IE (I didn't see if you wrapped `console.log`).

- Remember, `this.$el` can replace `$(this.el)` (gotta love those convenience methods, I see you're using `this.$(selector)`).

- Also, UnderscoreJS provides `_.isUndefined` and `_.has` which is a little nicer than the `typeof foo.bar !== undefined` test.

Check out the CBS Sports app on iOS and Android. It has curated Twitter lists for all sports and leagues - iOS : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cbs-sports/id307184892?mt=8 ; Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handmark.s...

It looks like someone [1] already had a similar idea, but I like the interface of tweetsfc over Hashtag Basketball. Your site looks a lot more professional. Its also nice to see the follow links to each player's twitter. I will be sharing this with my other NBA-fan friends!

[1] http://hashtagbasketball.com/

Pretty cool stuff. Maybe you should consider mixing up the tweets a bit though. Right now they seem to be strictly in chronological order and sometimes players shoot out 3 or 4 tweets at a time, so how about mixing it a bit so it's still in relative chronological order, but mix in other players. Not sure if that conveys what I'm thinking though.

Cool stuff, do you have an open-source version? I'd love to use this type of format for similar stuff I'm working on.

Couldn't this work for everything else as well? Curated lists for different gatherings of people?

"Everyone playing in this golf tourney/chess tourney" "Everyone on the set of Game of Thrones/The Walking dead" "Every CEO of Fortune 500"

This is pretty sweet.

I have a small website related to NBA[1] as well that I built on my free time (many moons ago). Haven't updated the site yet but will definitely update it again for the next season.

[1] www.nbaschedulesapp.com

For what it's worth, the first thing I did was send it to my brother with, "Hey, your kids may be interested in this." That was a reaction independent of any bias towards the source.

Great work - I think you're on to something!

This is awesome. I love the Celtics, but I had to go search all the players out manually when I wanted to follow them.

The only problem is most NBA players don't exactly give you...substantial...information in their many tweets.

This is super slick! I'm digging the interface. I'm assuming that you used ESPN's api in someway because I see their logo at the bottom. Which api's did you end up using if you don't mind me asking?

Graet job! I'm a die-hard and long-suffering Raptors fan and would definitely peruse this page from time to time.

I'm also working on a web app in the NBA space, so I'm inspired by your work.

Looks real cool man! You've got the wrong James Anderson on the Rockets page. I don't think he has a twitter, actually.

Hooray for having soccer teams in there! I'm going to use this to keep tabs on Juventus! :D

Love the infini scrolling, wasn't clear in the beginning though b/c there's no load spinner

At first I read: My MBA + Twitter mashup, and was wondering what on earth that might be.

Really good idea! but the best is that the UI looks and feels really great. Great job.

Nice Work! I'm curious, it says "Built with ESPN", did you use the ESPN API?

This is really cool. Would love to see further expansion into other leagues.

Amazing idea .really love it . How come there is no Dwyane Wade ?

This is decent. If you like it you should look into tintup.com

This is great. I'd love to see this for other sports.

Lifelong Kings fan here. Nice work!

Good work! Just what I needed!

This is brilliant, well done!

This is great. Thank you!

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