NBA Summer League Audio Pushes the Envelope
The NBA Summer League is basketball’s Skunk Works, and this year’s series at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas showed off some really cool innovations […] More
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NBA Summer League Once Again Serves as Breeding Ground for Innovation for NBA, ESPN, Turner Sports
The NBA, its broadcast partners, and an army of technology vendors have convened in Las Vegas this week for the annual innovation-fest that is NBA Summer League. The league, ESPN, […] More
NBA Summer League Is Turner Sports’ ‘Giant Petri Dish’ for Testing New Tech
Every summer in Las Vegas, the NBA Summer League provides an invaluable opportunity for the league and its broadcast partners to test out new technologies and explore new ways to […] More
2021 Executive Reflections: NBA’s Steve Hellmuth on How Unity of Purpose and Creative Partnerships Were Key to NBA Restart
When the pandemic hit the U.S. full force in March 2020, sports production was forced to accelerate technology changes that were already in motion but not expected to happen for […] More
The SVG Summit 2019: Inside the NBA Summer League’s 5G Smartphone Production
The NBA this past summer offered up a world first, producing a game using nothing more than Samsung Galaxy s10 5G smartphones running on two AT&T 5G cellular nodes. How […] More
2019 NBA Summer League, Part 3: ESPN Puts Flurry of Tech to the Test
When the then-named Las Vegas Summer League launched in 2004, the league’s elite prospects finally had a place to ball in the months leading up to the season. Since then, […] More
2019 NBA Summer League, Part 2: Data-Tracking Reaches New Heights
Throughout the history of professional basketball, three factors have been part of the formula: two teams, each clawing for a win, and the concept of time keeping the combatants in […] More
2019 NBA Summer League, Part 1: The League Heads for the Next Technological Frontier
Every summer, the best amateur basketball players on the planet become instant superstars after being selected in the annual NBA Draft. Some who go undrafted make their presence felt moving […] More
NBA To Produce World’s First 5G Smartphone Broadcast at Summer League
In a historic first, tonight’s Atlanta Hawks-Washington Wizards NBA Summer League game will become the first live major sports production ever shot exclusively on smartphones using 5G technology. More
ESPN’s NBA Summer League Operation Grows by Leaps and Bounds
ESPN’s production at this year’s NBA Summer League in Las Vegas was almost unrecognizable compared with just a few years ago. With all 30 teams participating for the first time, […] More