WNBA games will be live streamed on Twitter for the first time starting in two weeks as the first professional women’s sports events on the platform. Twitter and the WNBA announced a multi-year streaming agreement Monday which will see the social platform live stream 20 regular season games per season over the next three years. As […]
BOSTON — NBA commissioner Adam Silver along with Nate Silver of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight held a one-on-one discussion Friday at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference where they chatted — among many topics — about why analytics is woven into the fabric of the NBA arguably more than other U.S. professional sports leagues right now. Silver first […]
Kevin Durant, Paul George, Aaron Gordon, Kyrie Irving and C.J. McCollum made a surprise appearance at the 2K17 All-Star Tournament in New Orleans to face off against a five-man team called Still Trill that had just won the championship. The NBA players, playing NBA 2K as themselves, proceeded to get trounced in the eSports arena from […]
The National Basketball Association is set to become the first U.S. professional sports league to operate an official eSports league after the formation of the NBA 2K eLeague was announced Wednesday by the NBA and Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. “This partnership provides an excellent opportunity to further engage the eSports community, leveraging the NBA’s team ecosystem […]
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday that in the future, fans could have the opportunity to make purchases to see the last five minutes of games. While sitting on a Sports Business Innovation panel at CES in Las Vegas, Silver offered those comments when asked by Turner Sports host Ernie Johnson how fans will be watching […]
