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Hennessy unveils floating court in London to mark NBA 2022 Finals

Hennessy and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have unveiled the UK’s first floating basketball court on the Thames in London, in celebration of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Season and the 2022 Finals. The new court, which is travelling along the river from Woolwich to The Houses of Parliament, will kick off a three-day celebration of basketball in the […]

June 9, 2022By Nik Roseveare

WSC Sports, FC Barcelona partner on AI basketball highlights

WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, has announced that its platform will be used by FC Barcelona to create automated basketball highlights and engaging social content, from both the Liga Endesa and Copa del Rey competitions, to be shared across FC Barcelona’s owned and operated platforms. Powered by WSC Sports’ award-winning […]

June 8, 2022

LNP extends ViewLift contract

As the best teams of the 2021-2022 season move into their Championship Rounds, Italian basketball league Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP) has confirmed the signing of a multi-year contract extension with end-to-end streaming and OTT solutions provider ViewLift to continue and extend the League’s subscription service, LNP Pass. LNP Pass features all League games live and […]

June 2, 2022

Chicago Bulls to play Detroit Pistons in Paris

The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced that The NBA Paris Game 2023 will feature the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls and the three-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons playing a regular-season game at the Accor Arena in Paris on Jan.uary 19th 2023. Tickets for The NBA Paris Game 2023 will go on sale at a […]

May 24, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Eleven Italy adds Dunk League

Eleven Italy will be enhancing their offering of live basketball with Team Whistle’s Dunk League series. Eleven already brings live coverage of the EuroLeague and EuroCup to Italian basketball fans, and has secured the rights to the men’s and women’s FIBA Basketball world cups over the next couple of years. The platform will now be […]

May 11, 2022

Apple’s Makur Maker docuseries debuts April 22

Apple TV+ has announced that its new five-part documentary series The Long Game: Bigger Than Basketball, chronicling the inspiring, coming-of-age story of basketball phenom Makur Maker, will make its global debut on April 22nd on Apple TV+. Seth Gordon and executive produces the series which follows Maker, the NBA hopeful who grabbed global headlines with […]

April 1, 2022

BAL announces 2022 broadcast partners

The Basketball Africa League (BAL) ja announced its roster of broadcast partners for the 2022 BAL season, which tipped off on March 5th at the Dakar Arena in Dakar, Senegal, and will include stops in Cairo, Egypt and Kigali, Rwanda. The second BAL season will reach fans in 215 countries and territories in 14 languages […]

March 7, 2022

SN1, Content Arena record international TV coverage for Lega Basket

Lega Basket Serie A has announced a record in the international TV coverage of the 2021/22 LBA Serie A UnipolSai season thanks to 3 new agreements brokered by sports and media consultancy SN1 Trading and Content Arena, the software partner for media rights sales. In Europe, the league gained a new partner in Best4Sport, a […]

February 28, 2022

Pixellot, The National Travel Basketball Association partnership

Pixellot, a provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, has partnered with The National Travel Basketball Association (NTBA), the youth travel basketball tournament operator to provide software and hardware solutions for the capture, production and streaming of basketball games and tournaments across the US.  NTBA hosts events across the country for boys and girls […]

January 25, 2022

Disney+ orders The Crossover series

The Crossover, a drama series based on the critically acclaimed bestselling novel in verse by Kwame Alexander, has been ordered to series by Disney+. The Disney Branded Television series will be produced by 20thTelevision and will start production in February. The pilot episode was directed by George Tillman Jr and was written by Alexander and […]

January 20, 2022