{"id":922080,"date":"2026-10-05T23:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922080\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T23:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T23:42:09","slug":"nba-experimenting-with-smart-basketballs-official-wrist-wearables-in-select-preseason-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922080\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA experimenting with smart basketballs, official wrist wearables in select preseason games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NBA is experimenting with two pieces of technology in the leadup to the season, the league announced Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Select exhibition games will include a smart basketball that has a Bluetooth sensor in it and can collect data for future use in real-time officiating decisions. The league said the information from the Wilson-developed connected balls will be for research only and not affect calls made during those games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials in select games will also use wrist wearables to communicate with the replay center in designated situations, including replay reviews, scoring changes and clock malfunctions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The wearables went through what the NBA called a successful pilot program during the summer league. The technology will not extend into the regular season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"> See AP\u2019s full NBA coverage here <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NBA is experimenting with two pieces of technology in the leadup to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[45,49,48,459,66,82],"class_list":["post-922080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-science","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}