The Amazon Echo’s intelligent personal assistant, Alexa, dishes out its fair share of topical humor. With the NBA Finals in full swing, the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers are not above Alexa’s comedic fodder. Alexa will tell you — if you ask for “a Warriors burn” or “a Cavaliers burn” — a variety of […]
Veteran NBA sportscaster and retired player Steve Smith understands that younger generations are changing the way people watch games, and he’s advising a tech startup to get in on the action. Smith, a 14-year NBA veteran and former Atlanta Hawks All-Star player who won a championship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2003, signed on […]
The vast majority of NBA fans across the globe will never attend an actual game, but perhaps the next best thing is watching the game live in virtual reality. For the 2016-17 season, where NBA Digital and its partner NextVR aired one weekly regular season NBA LEAGUE PASS game in virtual reality, the VR audiences “continued to […]
From a couch in a home office in the Bay Area, two huge NBA fans have amassed a Twitter following for their live broadcasts and have unwittingly ushered in a new way to watch sports. Nate Duncan and Danny Leroux are living their childhood dreams. From a cushy couch in Duncan’s home, a large #twitterNBAshow […]
For teams and leagues, finding a match made in heaven with a startup or entrepreneur is no easy task. By the same token, it can be challenging for a startup to find an organization with a need that they can satisfy. The Olympia Zone Innovation Center, opening in a few weeks in Tel Aviv, will serve […]
