Crazy Taiwanese fly 6533 Miles for Kings

#LightTheBeam

[Crazy Taiwanese fly 6533 Miles for Kings @chen_yulin]

Dear Sacramento, it's my time to say goodbye. It's like one of my bucket lists has been checked during this week. First Kings playoff victory, see the Beam in person, enjoy that atmosphere with true loyal Kings fan for yrs (not some bandwagon switch team 10 yrs ago).

[Pharaoh Height 🦉 @PharaohHeight]

@DuncanSmithNBA Bang

[Coach Gibson Pyper @HalfCourtHoops]

Elite communication from Shamet and the rest of the Knicks on the court.

Calls out the Spurs play "Pistol" (Normal Hammer Play), then proceeds to blow it up on the weakside.

[Matt George @MattGeorgeSAC]

Per a league source, Sacramento Kings general manager Scott Perry met with the family of Houston point guard Kingston Flemings this weekend in San Antonio.

Flemings is expected to be amongst the guards potentially available for the Kings with the 7th pick in the NBA Draft.

[83Adebayo @83Adebayo]

OKC revamping their scouting department in 2021 to include multiple data analysts, building a 13 person-staff (reported as largest in any NBA org-most teams have 6 scouts at most) and them going 10 deep in a conference finals is a massive W for the sheets

[Cameron Salerno @cameronsalerno1]

I’ve been critical of Vivek for years. You can trace back almost every problem the Kings have back to him. And he’s taken zero accountability for it. Probably never will.

[Crazy Taiwanese fly 6533 Miles for Kings @chen_yulin]

@lifeofpablo735 Where did Mike Schumit say this? I’ve been thinking the same lately.
High-BB IQ prospects are often overlooked by scouts — guys like Tyrese Haliburton and Jalen Williams. Thanks a lot!

[HogStats.com @HogStats]

Heard a mention of Darius Acuff Sr. on the SEC Network broadcast. Just ran across this photo of him the other day, playing for Eastern Kentucky in the 1998-99 season.

[Casey Holdahl @CHold]

I have indeed been let go after 18+ years with the @trailblazers. My sincerest thanks to all of you who have read/listened/watched/engaged with my work over the years.

[Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau]

New York has outscored their opponents by a combined 135 points in the last 4 games, the biggest point differential in any 4-game span in NBA playoff history.

@Stathead

[Ben Pfeifer @bjpf_]

what’s it like to read the game like a future top 7 NBA draft pick? just ask kingston flemings. he’ll tell you

full video out on youtube later this week

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

Updating this:

Game 4: +45 (W by 32)

You are playing against a math equation versus these guys. They launch and hit so many, that where you are going to make up the points has to be the first question & answer for their future opponents.

[Mike Jagacki @Mike_Jagacki]

Here's the simple play the Knicks ran that Atlanta could not stop yesterday.

Goes to show you, especially in the NBA, it's not about the action, it's about the personnel running it.

[Ron Harper @HARPER04_5]

@DFoxMuse Say it louder fox 🦊 is a key part of this spurs team

[Tristi Rodriguez @tristi_r14]

What did Maxime Raynaud and Nique Clifford learn from Russell Westbrook and DeMar DeRozan in their rookie seasons?

“Don’t leave the bus without asking if they need something.” 😂

The two then go in depth with their actual responses.

(🎥: @OldManAndThree)

[Bill Oram @billoram]

Amid the damage control, what I’ve heard about the Blazers and Michael Malone is that Tom Dundon tried to set up a call with Malone but was rebuffed because the job is not formally open. Also that Blazers were looking to pay about half of what he got from UNC.

[Adrian Wojnarowski @wojespn]

New episode of The Program: @CoachLukeMurray on taking on the massive challenge of @BCMBB, his enthusiasm for the portal and salary cap and how data fits into his team building

[Damian Lillard @Dame_Lillard]

OMG @CJMcCollum lol

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

For the second time in one week, the NBA’s broadcast partner displayed an incorrect graphic in the final moments.

Neither the Heat nor the Knicks had a timeout.

[zostaff @zostaff]

AI BASKETBALL ANALYSIS. A FULL COMPUTER VISION SYSTEM. BUILT ON YOLO, OPENCV, AND PYTHON.

Take any NBA broadcast. Any camera angle. Any resolution. Feed it into the system.

YOLO finds every player and the ball. Frame by frame. No manual annotation. No pre-labeled data.The model just sees the court and understands it.

Zero-shot classification looks at jersey pixels and decides who plays for whom. Two teams separated in milliseconds. Without ever being told the team names.
But here's where it gets wild.

Court keypoint detection identifies the geometry of the playing surface. Homography transforms the broadcast camera into a top-down tactical map. Real meters. Real coordinates. From a flat 2D video.

Now every player has a position on a real court. Every movement becomes a data point. Every pass becomes a vector.

Speed. Distance. Possession time. Pass networks. All extracted from nothing but pixels.

No GPS. No chips in the ball. No million-dollar Second Spectrum setup. A Python script and a GPU.

The full pipeline is open source. The tutorial walks through every line of code. From detection to transformation to analytics output.

Teams used to pay six figures for this data. Now you build it in an afternoon.

Computer vision didn't just enter basketball. It democratized it.

[Shax @ShaxNBA]

Who has switched ball-screen actions the most vs the Knicks this season