NBA Highlights – Search for video of NBA plays

This is a fascinating tool but I can't imagine this will exist much longer after the NBA's lawyers find it.

Where is all the footage from? Is this allowed by the NBA? The quality of the footage is quite good.

This seems to be just searching the clip title. For example, if you search 'curry 3' ('curry three' returns nothing), it'll return things like "Curry 2' Finger Roll Layup (6 PTS) (Iguodala 3 AST)" or "Curry REBOUND (Off:0 Def:3)". If it could match the search query with play-by-play data, now THAT'd be cool.

For all the people asking where it's from, quick google brought up http://www.nba.com/sitemap_videos_0001.xml and changing it to 0002 seemed to work. It's just an index of something from nba.com and nothing is hosted on the site.

I like the idea, but I'm having some trouble with it. Search results are only from this season, right? A search for Steve Nash showed a Steph Currey highlight as result one for me. More slang oriented searches like "dunked on" or "dunks on" don't really work either. Dunk/Dunks shows up in results, but nothing beyond that. Was looking for one of my all time favorite highlights, Baron Davis dunking on Kirilenko [1]. For me this type of thing would be pretty awesome with some sort of stats element. A 'visual box score' vs. 'highlights search engine.' ie show the box score for a game, and clicking in any particular field shows video of the plays that produced those stats.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYpwjB0IzoU

Searched for "Kobe pass"

0 results lol