NBA and Microsoft Azure's New Partnership
This story emerged three weeks ago, and I have been wanting to write about it since. It is significant but too small for a newsletter.
On April 16, the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Microsoft announced a new multi-year collaboration. One of the key pieces of the collaboration is:
Microsoft and NBA Digital — co-managed by the NBA and Turner Sports — will create a new, innovative direct-to-consumer platform on Microsoft Azure that will use machine learning and artificial intel…