With Hawk’s Eye, referees will have greater help in favor of better decision-making.
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Hawk’s Eye technology, first used in sports such as tennis or soccer, will be adapted by the NBA from the 2023-2024 season to seek to reduce the arbitration controversies that have occurred this year in the best basketball in the world.
After beginning to test its use in the last Summer League, this Tuesday it was confirmed that The NBA will begin implementing Hawk-Eye by signing an agreement with longstanding Sony’s Hawk-Eye Innovations, which will not only imply knowing the 360 degree position of the ball but also the movements of the players and facilitating decisions for the referees.
Regarding its use, it will be applied in plays such as foot check in shots from the line of three or determining if a player touched the ball while inside or outside the court.
In fact the NBA hopes that in the future the Hawkeye can be used automatically in routine plays, in the same way as it works in tennis with the decisions that replaced the linesmen in ATP and WTA tournaments or in soccer when the device instantly notifies the principal if the ball crossed the line the Gol.
And it is that the technology developed for Sony will not only be used to help arbitration, but will open new horizons in the analysis of matches and in the content offered to fans.
In fact, the NBA plans to carry out virtual recreations of the games and offer dynamic angles to follow the plays of the stars.
The use of technology, a benefit also for referees
Referees will also benefit from the use of technology to avoid cumbersome situations like those that LeBron James experienced last January, when a clear foul by Jayson Tatum on him was not sanctioned and in the end ended up affecting the final result, with a 125-121 defeat in overtime for the Los Angeles Lakers against Boston Celtics.
Similarly, another case was registered at the beginning of February in a duel between the New Orleans Pelicans and the Dallas Mavericks, when the referees returned a possession to the Texans believing that Brandon Ingram, from the rivals, had touched the ball with a foot on the line and who was also key in sentencing the setback for the Pelicans.
On both occasions the referees later acknowledged their mistakes, angering both the players and the fans.
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