Michael

Technology & Basketball

May 12, 2009

A few updates regarding new ways to stay in touch with Basketball.  Google is in the process of rolling out new search functions, and one of them is the ability to see an instant box score.  For example I just typed in “Boston Celtics” to the Google Search bar and here is what the Search [...]

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Which state shows the most Basketball love?

February 19, 2009

Have you ever had the argument with your friends about who has the best fans?  Well I can come close to answering that question, by showing you which states show the most “love” for the sport. With Google’s “Insight for search” it allows you to compare search behaviour across Google.  With Google being such a dominant search engine it [...]

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Choose your own NBA adventure

September 15, 2008

Just a quick note for those NBA fans out there that would like to see their teams’ games televised more.  The NBA recenly announced that on Tuesday night they will have “interactive fan night“, where fans will be able to vote and decide on which games NBA.tv will televise nationally.   No, sorry, that is not Kris Kaman on the [...]

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Warehouse worker beats Lebron in H-O-R-S-E

September 4, 2008

Lebron showed up near our place in Venice Beach the other day, and played a game of Horse with David Kalb, a warehouse worker from Ohio, and apparent trick shot guru. Looking like Billy Hoyle from White Men Can’t Jump, David earned some street cred on the courts of Dogtown. It would have been way [...]

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One Billion

August 10, 2008

Over 1 billion people watched Team USA take on Team China this morning in China.  That’s a lot. I told you Basketball is popular in China.  But seriously, the game was a landmark game for the growth of the sport.  Although the USA won this historic game fairly easily, it continues to show the immense populalrity of the sport in [...]

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Save the Sonics

June 17, 2008

The battle for the Sonics begins. Being from Seattle, I am probably biased in my opinion on this issue, however I still think it is a tragedy if the city of Seattle loses the Sonics.  I also think it is incredibly short-sighted by the NBA and David Stern to allow the move.  As the NBA continues to expand internationally and as interest [...]

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NBA dominates search in China

May 22, 2008

I have spent countless hours working with online tools to help identify and value the top keywords in other languages including Chinese.  Everytime I am going through the Chinese search and translator tools for my other job, I notice the immense popularity of Basketball in China.  Below are some screenshots of how popular the search term “NBA” is.  [Click on [...]

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