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NBA Summer League workers handle a cellphone as part of the Summer League's cellphone broadcast of the Wizards-Hawks game Thursday afternoon.

NBA Summer League

NBA Makes Hoops Broadcast History By Transmitting Summer League Game Via Only Cell Phones From Las Vegas Thursday

July 11, 2019July 12, 2019 Alan Snel Dave Macdonald, Jeff Curtin, Stephen Hellmuth

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Always looking to push the broadcast technology frontier, the NBA used cell phones exclusively to

NBA cameraman Thomas Stewart testing a "LapCam" during an NBA Summer League game at Thomas & Mack Center Monday.

NBA Summer League

NBA Using Summer League As Tech Laboratory To Test Broadcast Cameras, Basketball Rim Sensors

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019 Alan Snel John Carter, Stephen Hellmuth, Thomas Stewart

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Courtside fans at the NBA Summer League usually include the likes of Lakers superstar LeBron

It was a first -- producing a vertical feed of a basketball game for cell phones.

NBA Summer League

Oh Those Millennials: NBA Says Don’t Go Sideways With Them

July 9, 2018July 10, 2018 Alan Snel Stephen Hellmuth, Warren LeGarie

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Photos by DANIEL CLARK Inside an NBA production trailer outside Thomas & Mack Center, about

A look at the Skycam that will be offering viewers an overhead look at the game action during Wednesday telecasts on ESPN3. Photo credit: Daniel Clark/LVSportsBiz.com

NBA Summer League Thomas & Mack Center

NBA Rolls Out Skycam Broadcast To Give Fans Overhead Look At Summer League

July 6, 2018July 7, 2018 Alan Snel Stephen Hellmuth

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com The NBA’s media operations and technology chief has loved the images captured by overhead cameras

July 5, 2021

Alan Snel, veteran journalist and LVSportsBiz.com publisher. ASnel@LVSportsBiz.com.

LVSPORTSBIZ.COM, launched June 2017: We are a digital magazine providing market-leading news, intelligence, enterprise and breaking news on Las Vegas’ sports/stadium industry. Our stories are quoted nationally and we set the sportsbiz news agenda in Las Vegas. Publisher Alan Snel has reported on the business of sports and stadiums in Denver, South Florida, New York, Seattle and Tampa besides Las Vegas and is considered a national authority on the topic.

LVSportsBiz.com coverage of Athletics stadium project on Strip in Las Vegas.

A’s owner John Fisher in Las Vegas

New A’s team president Marc Badain

LVCVA spends $8.25 million on A’s sponsorship

Big League Sports With Small Town Politics

Man of Many Hats

Athletics’ long, strange journey for new ballpark

How Deal Was Made For A’s Ballpark On Strip

May 24, 2021

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel is a nationally-known bicycle rights leader and bicycle travel writer.

Alan focuses on reducing road violence and has asked government to enforce road safety laws, design better roads for bicyclists and walkers not just motorists, educate drivers, install more penalties for reckless motorists and lower speed limits.

Here are Alan’s travel story samples, literary adventures based on Alan’s expansive and curious approach to reporting sports-business news and a bicycle life:

Let’s Pedal Zion National Park

Bicycling Bristlecone Trail At 9,000 Feet

Biking magical Seattle and the Northwest

Bicycling the Tour de Stadiums of Las Vegas

Las Vegas bicyclist struck by bullet during memorial ride

Incomparable Grand Canyon by bike

LVSportsBiz.com Publisher Alan Snel has also written two books: Long Road Back To Las Vegas and Bicycle Man. Purchase Long Road Back To Las Vegas on Amazon and contact Alan to buy Bicycle Man at asnel@LVSportsBiz.com.