The NBA’s Utah Jazz have partnered with Vivint Smart Home to open an in-arena sensory room for children with autism spectrum disorder and other intellectual and developmental disabilities. The room, which opens at the Jazz’s Vivint Smart Home Arena in Salt Lake City on Friday, will debut for Austin Awareness Night when the Jazz face […]
NEW YORK — The origin story for Bleacher Report Live — Turner Sports’ soon-to-launch OTT platform offering a personalized live sports hub — dates to finding a solution for a very real Saturday afternoon need. A group of friends a few years ago were out at a lakehouse scouring the dial for an SMU football […]
NEW YORK — More than a year ago, NBA commissioner Adam Silver first broached the idea of letting fans purchase just the final minutes of an individual game rather than outlay for its entirety or even a full season-long subscription to League Pass. The league tested that idea on Friday by offering the fourth quarter […]
Peaceful protests following the shooting death of Stephon Clark disrupted a Sacramento Kings game last week, dwindling attendance at the 17,000-seat Golden 1 Center to just 2,400 fans and delaying the final round of the Kings’ March Madness-like Capitalize startup competition. This Sunday, the team held its own NBA-backed protest ahead of its game against […]
YouTube TV continued its aggressive play into the sports streaming market with a presenting partnership of the NBA Finals, the first such sponsorship in the league’s history. The logo for the championship series will read, “The Finals presented by YouTube TV,” and the multiyear agreement includes backing of the WNBA and G-League title-crowning series as […]