The National Basketball Association announced an expansion in the partnerships with Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and The Walt Disney Company with a new, nine-year agreement. Under the new agreement, ESPN, ABC, and TNT will televise NBA games starting with 2016-2017 season through the 2024-2025 season. “The Walt Disney Company and Turner Broadcasting share responsibility for […]
Are we boldly going where we have never gone before, with legalized sports gambling across the 50-states and maybe even in stadium? This quickly became the talk of the Internet two weeks ago when NBA Commissioner Adam Silver floated that gambling on professional sports is eventually going to become legal outside of Las Vegas. Incredibly, […]
The NBA and Broadband TV have announced that they will continue their relationship after first teaming up in 2009 for the management of fan-uploaded content on YouTube. BroadbandTV will use software to detect clips containing NBA property and place ads in between those clips. The NBA channel on YouTube boasts 5.6 million subscribers and more […]
Camera-based tracking technology from Synergy and SportVU has done an amazing job for the NBA and its teams in recording essential information with in depth play-by-play statistics. With those statistics, coaches, and fans can see a player’s effectiveness on the court, whether it be a breakdown of speed, the distance a player runs, or ball possession information.
The Milwaukee Bucks have taken a step further in data analytics by signing with Vantage Sports Inc. and their next-generation analytics and video platform in evaluating player performance.
(LeBron James Instagram) “I’m coming home.” These three words, inducing ecstatic tears of joy from Cleveland Cavaliers fans and the aching feeling of abandonment from fans of the Miami Heat, will undoubtedly go down as one of the most historical phrases in Cavalier history. In his letter to Sports Illustrated, LeBron James announced his return to the Cavaliers for a second and likely last stint with the team. It was almost like a fairy tale for James, who played his high school basketball at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron, Ohio. After deciding to forgo his college career, he entered the NBA draft at the raw age of 18. Distinguished by his gravity defying slams and his knack...
