{"id":10242,"date":"2017-11-13T10:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=10242"},"modified":"2017-11-13T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T15:26:53","slug":"brian-kopp-98-played-role-in-changing-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2017\/11\/13\/brian-kopp-98-played-role-in-changing-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Kopp \u201998 played role in changing the NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10243 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a>SportVU, developed by Israeli scientists Gal Oz and Miky Tamir, uses high-resolution tracking cameras in the catwalks of NBA arenas to capture the precise movements of players thousands of times per minute. This technology changed the way basketball teams make decisions, basketball players are valued, and basketball fans understand the sport. It even changed the game itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Stats LLC, a sports-data company based in Chicago, wanted to acquire their business; that is where Brian comes into the picture. An employee of Stats at the time, Brian aided in the acquisition of SportVU and the subsequent sale of the technology to the NBA.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\">Read the full story at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/article_email\/the-israeli-tech-startup-that-changed-the-nba-1510068323-lMyQjAxMTE3NTA0ODMwNTgyWj\/\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SportVU, developed by Israeli scientists Gal Oz and Miky Tamir, uses high-resolution tracking cameras in the catwalks of NBA arenas to capture the precise movements of players thousands of times per minute. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/11\/Kopp_Brian-1024x682.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10245,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10242\/revisions\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}