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Late-Night Tweeting Linked To Weaker NBA Performance

Those late-night tweets you’re sending may be impacting your game, NBA players. Professional basketball players who sent tweets between 11 p.m and 7 a.m. the night before a game scored on average 1 point less and their shooting accuracy dropped by 1.7 percentage points compared with their performance in games that did not follow late-night […]

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How The NBA Welcomes Doing Business With Tech Companies Big And Small

NBA commissioner Adam Silver spoke Thursday before Game 1 of the NBA Finals from Oracle Arena, which is home to one of the most tech-minded teams in the Golden State Warriors. The league knows the area well, given its many partnerships with leading tech companies that have their headquarters nearby in Silicon Valley. “I think […]

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NBA Digital, NextVR Offering NBA Finals Highlights In Virtual Reality

For the third consecutive year, the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors meet in the NBA Finals, but for the time first time, highlights from the series will be available in virtual reality. As part of NBA Digital’s partnership with NextVR, which included a regular schedule of live virtual reality programming this season through NBA […]

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Windpact Scores AngelMD Investment To Expand Retrofitted Helmets

A technology designed to protect athletes from traumatic brain injuries has received a round of funding that will help get its retrofitted helmets onto fields faster. A syndicate of angelMD members, among an investment group focused on the future of healthcare, invested an undisclosed amount in Windpact, a maker of sports helmet technology that aims […]

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