Sportradar has signed a new data integration deal with Kinduct for the 2017-18 NBA season to provide teams with athletic performance data about their players. Expanding on a multi-year data deal between Sportradar and the NBA set to begin this season, Sportradar will feed the data it collects about players through Kinduct’s Athlete Management System, […]
NBA legend Kobe Bryant has financially invested in and joined the board of 15 Seconds of Fame, a social media app that delivers personal video content to fans at live events to boost engagement. The five-time NBA champion has agreed to invest in and advise the fan engagement startup through his investment company, Kobe Inc., […]
Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, known for being the social media king in the NBA, was fined $10,000 by the league for using using language on social media that it deemed on Saturday to be “inappropriate.” The fine handed down by NBA Executive Vice President of Basketball Operations Kiki VanDeWeghe came following an Instagram Live […]
NEW YORK — NextVR had a successful first year in partnering with the NBA to deliver regularly scheduled broadcasts of live games in virtual reality this past season, and executive chairman Brad Allen has the numbers to support that. Last October when the San Antonio Spurs faced the Sacramento Kings, the game in VR saw […]
As the NBA free agency period opens, teams are making a mad dash to improve. For the Portland Trail Blazers, the improvement extends off the court. The team has announced its intention to continue improving its mobile app by partnering with Venuetize. One of the specialties of Venuetize’s mobile-first platform is its location-detection services. This […]
