Courtside – TUI for NBA Games

Nolan Fogarty was tired of opening a browser just to check basketball scores. So he built Courtside—a terminal UI for viewing NBA games and scores that runs right in your CLI. He used Go with BubbleTea and LipGloss to style it, pulled data from public NBA API endpoints, and referenced the popular Python package "swar/nba_api" to figure out the endpoint structure before building his own Go SDK. Tested it during Friday's Final game and it worked. That's the kind of side project that makes you delete three browser tabs you didn't need open.

This is the energy: instead of complaining about bloated sports apps that take 30 seconds to load and serve you ads between plays, Nolan just wrote a TUI that does one thing and does it clean. No bloat. No ads. Just scores, stats, and game data in your terminal where coding lives. It's open source, it's lightweight, and it's exactly the kind of tool hackers actually want. Basketball fans who live in terminals finally have something that doesn't feel like a compromise.

Courtside is a reminder that the best tools sometimes come from one person who wanted it done right and just built it. If you watch NBA and spend your day in a terminal anyway, this is your new scoreboard.