FIBA, basketball’s global governing body, has expanded its long-term partnership with Genius Sports Limited.
The idea is to provide computer vision technology and AI-powered capabilities to National Leagues and Federations around the world from 2025 to 2035.
This new technology will transform the international basketball data and video ecosystem and provide a synchronization solution for live statistics collection. To improve video production with advanced player tracking.
Expansion of the partnership between FIBA and Genius Sports
“For nearly 20 years, FIBA and Genius Sports have joined forces in developing the most innovative tools for National Leagues and Federations at all levels of basketball,” said Andreas Zagklis, FIBA Secretary General.
“Through this automated solution, our goal is to help National Federations and Leagues increase their reach and revenue while reducing costs.
Happy to expand our partnership with Genius to achieve this goal and equip FIBA with the first access to this technology in basketball.”
For the first time, Leagues and Federations will have access to an AI-powered automated player tracking system.
This technology will provide users with access to a range of cutting-edge training tools and analytics, automated refereeing, and streaming augmentation tools.
“We are thrilled to expand our historic partnership with FIBA by equipping National Leagues and Federations with cutting-edge technology. We want to transform how their fans, coaches, referees, broadcasters and sponsors interact with live data and video,” said Mark Locke, CEO by Genius Sports.
“Powered by our unique AI-powered system, National Leagues and Federations at all levels of basketball will be able to automate data and video collection and utilize the highest quality player tracking data.”
