NBA star Jeremy Lin backs HomeCourt: a basketball app that helps players up their game

The HomeCourt app, developed by tech start-up NEX Team, provides an AI-based platform for coaches and players to discuss performance improvements

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NBA star Jeremy Lin, left, plays basketball at his namesake All-Star Game held earlier this month in Shenzhen. Lin, who plays for the Atlanta Hawks, is one of the prominent investors in start-up NEX Team, which developed the HomeCourt basketball analytics app to track and analyse how a player makes shots during training or in a game. Photo: ImagineChina

Published: 7:00am, 29 Aug 2018Updated: 3:06pm, 13 Sep 2018

NBA star Jeremy Lin is looking to help basketball players improve their shotmaking on the court with the help of a mobile app powered by artificial intelligence (AI), marking another example of how the technology is increasingly being adopted in sports.

Lin, the Taiwanese-American point guard who plays for the Atlanta Hawks, is one of the prominent investors in San Jose, California-based start-up NEX Team, which developed the HomeCourt mobile app to track and analyse how a player makes shots during training or in a game.

“HomeCourt provides the platform for players to start working smarter,” Lin said in a statement. “The fact that this tech is now available to everyone anywhere, not just to professional basketball players, is very special.”

The HomeCourt app uses artificial intelligence to track and analyse how well a basketball player makes shots on the court. Photo: Handout.

Launched in July, the HomeCourt app works with an iPhone or iPad to record on video shots taken by a player on court, while providing real-time statistics from that workout session. It also provides edited video clips for a shot-by-shot review of a player’s performance.

All that data is designed to help a player measure the accuracy of shots taken from different areas of the court, as well as a player’s running speed and height of vertical jump.