On September 23 and 24, 2017, students from all around the country will be gathering in New York City to take part in the second annual NBA Hackathon. Teams consisting of undergraduates, graduate students, and recent alumni will be working for 24 hours to build basketball and business analytic tools to help the NBA. Why are we writing about this on Streaking the Lawn, a Virginia Cavaliers community? Because 2014 basketball alumnus Akil Mitchell is working behind the scenes to make it happen.
After graduating from Virginia in 2014, Mitchell played for the Houston Rockets in the Summer League and signed with the Rockets in the fall, before being waived and being acquired by the Rockets’ NBA Development League affiliate.