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    Clippers unveil their vision of future game broadcasts

    After the Clippers' television deal with Bally Sports expired this summer, some fans wondered on social media why Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, whose tech background fueled a wealth unmatched by any other owner of a professional team in North America, didn't simply start his own channel to broadcast the games. Ballmer had thought about changing the televised sports-viewing experience since his ...
    by Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times Oct 18, 2022 5 minutes
    In this file photo, Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer consoles Clippers forward Robert Covington after a 105-103 loss to the New Orleans Pelicans in the NBA Play-In tournament at Crypto.com Arena on April 15, 2022, in Los Angeles.

    After the Clippers' television deal with Bally Sports expired this summer, some fans wondered on social media why Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, whose tech background fueled a wealth unmatched by any other owner of a professional team in North America, didn't simply start his own channel to broadcast the games.

    Ballmer had thought about changing the televised sports-viewing experience since his time at Microsoft and tested new broadcast ideas since buying the Clippers in 2014. He and Second Spectrum, a Koreatown-based sports analytics company, unveiled Clippers CourtVision, which added new modes to the regular cable-subscription broadcast in 2018 such as one displaying the probability of a shot taken by a certain player at a certain spot and another using animations to liven up dunks and big plays. One

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