NBA Scoreboard

NBA Scoreboard is an addon for Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey that brings the latest scores and news from the NBA into the browser. The addon is packaged as a single toolbar button with a drop-down menu and has an extensive range of preferences for customisation. It is the most popular basketball addon for Firefox with over 130,000 downloads and 7,500 active users.
History
NBA Scoreboard was first released on 19 July 2006. The extension featured a single toolbar button that dynamically generated the URL of the scoreboard at NBA.com using the system date of the user's computer. Thus, irrespective of the timezone, the scoreboard for the current day's games loaded correctly.
The grew steadily during the 2006-07 NBA season and stabilised at v1.45. For subsequent NBA seasons, the addon name incorporated the current NBA season, and NBA Scoreboard 2008, 2009 and 2010 followed. The current version is NBA Scoreboard 2010 v3.10.7.
Features
NBA Scoreboard has a long list of features for the NBA fan.
* Live scores. The addon populates the drop down menu with live NBA scores and links to game previews, boxscores and recaps.
* News feeds. The addon loads team RSS news items directly into the drop down menu.
* Scoreboard choice. The addon can direct the user to the NBA scoreboards at NBA.com, ESPN, SI, CBS, Yahoo! or FoxSports.
* NBA Scoreboard Lite. A script that modifies the loaded scoreboard, removing site navigation and advertisements.
* NBA Leaderboard. A pop-up window summarising the game leaders in points, rebounds and assists.
* Yesterday. The scoreboard, recaps and boxscores from the previous day are available in the drop down menu.
* Launchers. Link directly to the Audio League Pass and CourtSideLive pages at NBA.com.
Reviews
* NBA Scoreboard has a 5-star CNET Editor rating, concluding "IE users will be disappointed to find it only works on Firefox, but it's the kind of easy-to-use and informative tool that makes it worth changing browsers."
* NBA Scoreboard has a 5-star rating at About.com, concluding "it saves you the time and effort of having... to find the information you are looking for."
* NBA Scoreboard has a 5-star rating at Mozilla Addons. "Very good add-on for all NBA fans."

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