Duke retained its stature as the No. 1-ranked team in men’s college basketball after a win last week against No. 2 Michigan State, as the Blue Devils program continues to thrive under the leadership of coach Mike Krzyzewski. In the offseason, Duke added the use of WHOOP Strap 2.0. The lightweight wearable devices measures and analyzes […]
Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski announced Monday the launch of PowerForward, a video-based leadership development platform for businesses that he co-founded. Krzyzewski, who has the most wins in Division I men’s basketball history, is bringing with him to the company a number of leaders in the sports industry who are supporting him. Get The Latest Sports […]
Duke Athletics announced that it has chosen the SAP HANA platform and NTT DATA’s Analytics to integrate into its upcoming basketball season. The new technology will help take the men’s basketball data and apply the most powerful and intuitive data visualization tools in all of college sports. This new technology partnership will bring current team […]
Jabari Parker (Left) and Andrew Wiggins (Right) were the consensus top two players in the Class of 2013 and look to be high picks in the 2014 NBA Draft. (USA Today Sports) In 2003, a high school senior from Ohio signed an endorsement deal with Nike worth $90 million over seven years. Although he was projected to be the number one pick in that year’s NBA Draft, he hadn’t played a minute of professional basketball at the time of the deal. Yet, something about him convinced Nike to take a huge risk and give him the largest initial contract ever to an unproven professional. That high school senior was LeBron James, and for Nike, the risk paid off. James is...
