During a recent episode of the SportTechie Podcast with host Bram Weinstein, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was asked, ‘What’s the biggest overrated and underrated technology in sports right now?’ His response? “Overrated is analytics. Underrated is artificial intelligence and its derivative.” Why does Cuban think the way he does? “Because it’s become efficient now and because […]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban isn’t too high on virtual reality right now despite the NBA being at the forefront among the five U.S. professional sports leagues, currently broadcasting one game a week live in virtual reality via NBA League Pass. On this week’s SportTechie Podcast, host Bram Weinstein asked Cuban where virtual reality was […]
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban joins this week’s podcast to discuss hot topics about innovation in sports. He explains why he won’t invest in an eSports team, why analytics in sports are overrated, and his belief in the future of artificial intelligence. Plus, Cuban gives his best advice to those trying to break into the […]
The Sacramento Kings on Wednesday will be hosting Tech Night, including a halftime eSports game of Super Smash Bros being displayed on the Golden 1 Center’s 4K video board that will serve as a look into the NBA’s eSports future. The Kings’ involvement with eSports will stretch beyond this week, as the team is among those […]
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 […]
