With 2017 NBA All-Star festivities in New Orleans this weekend, fans will now be able to message with their friends using Utah Jazz forward Gordon Hayward and Boston Celtics point guard Isaiah Thomas in emoji form, among other All-Stars. Newly-formed digital agency Hijinx, led by co-founders Brian Clouser and Rosario Tarabocchia, is rolling out 14 individualized NBA “next-generation” emoji […]
The following is a column by C.J. Watson, a guard in the NBA for the Orlando Magic who has played 10 seasons in the league. Watson founded the Quiet Storm Foundation with his family based around the core values of education, encouragement, hard work and faith. The foundation develops and implements community programs that support students, […]
Australia’s National Basketball League has begun displaying graphics during live broadcasts of games that feature Catapult analytics tracking player movement and workload. In a game between the Cairns Taipans and Perth Wildcats last month, a graphic appeared on the screen that showed for each player Catapult’s PlayerLoad metric — a number that provides an objective measure […]
Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and Seat Bid are promoting the online ticket bidding marketplace by offering fans the chance to bid on two of Ballmer’s baseline courtside seats for the team’s Feb. 15 home game against the Atlanta Hawks. Ballmer hopes to drum up interest in Seat Bid, which he referred to as […]
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 […]
