The Amazon Echo’s intelligent personal assistant, Alexa, dishes out its fair share of topical humor. With the NBA Finals in full swing, the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers are not above Alexa’s comedic fodder. Alexa will tell you — if you ask for “a Warriors burn” or “a Cavaliers burn” — a variety of […]
Kevin Durant has created his own YouTube channel, telling fans he wants to show them a “different side.” In his recent welcome video, the Golden State Warriors small forward and eight-time NBA All-Star is seen hanging out at home, showing off his car collection, getting a haircut and going behind-the-scenes at Warriors’ games. “I look forward to bringing […]
Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant has one of the more diverse business portfolios in the NBA, one that now includes marketing and CRM platform Zenreach. Durant recently joined Zenreach’s $30 million Series C funding round along with Maverick Ventures, Founders Fund, 8vc, Bain Capital Ventures, First Round Capital, SV Angel and actor/venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher. “Even […]
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 NBA is unanimously revered as the most-forward thinking major U.S. professional league, even most recently being the first among the five major leagues to regularly broadcast regular season games in virtual reality this year. That mindset doesn’t start and stop at the league office, though. With the 2017 NBA All-Star weekend festivities a week away in […]