The NBA Awards are on June 24, but the LA Clippers have been given another honor for the work the franchise has done off the basketball court.
Clippers CourtVision, which debuted this season as a way to augment the game-watching experience, won a Sports Business Award for Best in Sports Technology. CourtVision allows fans to watch the game in different modes that include additional features such as play diagrams, real-time shooting percentages, and animation.
The project has been an endeavor of Steve Ballmer since he bought the team in 2014. As Gillian Zucker, the Clippers President of Business Operations, noted in her acceptance speech, “CourtVision was among the first grand ideas.