Google Search adds YouTube recaps to NBA scorecards

Google and the NBA have collaborated to enable YouTube video recaps to appear in NBA scorecards on Google Search. This means you can get quick updates and recaps on postseason games plus the  video highlights. Want to see that Wade to James alley oop dunk, you get the video plus other game information. This will hopefully be the start of a new way to condense and package replayable content for all sports.

Source: Android Police

Philippines tops list of countries following the NBA on Social Networks

The National Basketball Association (NBA), which has a record 278 million fans following the NBA, teams and players globally on social media, today announced that the Philippines tops the list of countries following the league on Facebook and Twitter outside the United States and China.  

During The Finals, the NBA will use social media to provide coverage and interact with fans around the world in real time. 

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iTunes offers up NBA Finals

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Will the Miami Heat prove that you can win it all in one year as long as you get the best player in the league to take his talents to South Beach or will the determined Dallas Mavericks prove that hard work, experience and sweet-shooting 7-footers can make the difference? Whatever the outcome of this year's NBA Finals, one thing is certain, iTunes is making the games accessible as a$6.99 all-inclusive season pass or you can download each game for $1.99.  Episodes come in HD and are good to go on iPhones, iPads or iPod Touches as well as desktops and notebooks. Best of all, no annoying Sprite commercials with people exploding into liquid. As for the finals, we're for the underdogs, Dallas in 6.

NBA, NHL and Google in talks to stream live games on YouTube

Google, the NHL and the NBA are reportedly in talks to enable live games to be shown on YouTube. According to a Bloomberg story published today, Gautam Anand, Google’s director of content partnerships for Asia Pacific said that the second half of 2011 would see a number of live sport events streaming on YouTube.  This would supposedlly include the ongoing NBA and NHL games as well as soccer leagues from Europe.

“It’s fair to say that there will be a lot more appealing sports content you’ll see on YouTube,” Anand said. “We have ongoing conversations with pretty much everyone." The NBA has been active in finding ways and means to offer fans access to games from their mobile devices as well as on demand through their NBA League Pass programs 

Source: Bloomberg