Because it’s 2016, there is a “Tech Summit” at NBA All-Star Weekend now, and commissioner Adam Silver kicked things off by interviewing a hologram version (as opposed to… the rotted corpse?) of James Naismith, the inventor of the game of basketball.
Tupac, and James, are alive!
We’ve come a long way from the 1890s, when Naismith’s students were throwing a ball into a peach basket: Silver used the interview to kick off a talk about how the league will use virtual reality to interact with players in novel, cool and perhaps slightly creepy ways:
Future technology like virtual reality, Adam Silver says, will let fans high five a player, and "drive home with him after the game.