NBA & Microsoft Azure deliver the live insight fans want

The NBA Stats Team wanted to explore how AI could help them process data on all on-court players' specific live body movements, analyzing things like speed, dunk height, number of passes and dribbles, and even injury risk, simultaneously. The team built a Microsoft Azure solution based on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) that can manage and process up to 16 gigabytes of raw data per game, not including RGB video signals—sometimes more if the game goes into overtime. The new solution is deployed and operational, and the data being collected is already helping the NBA better understand players' strengths and weaknesses and improve their performance. The NBA aims to use Azure AI infrastructure to continue to build new learning models and support statistic overlays on viewer screens as they happen on-court.