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Always a web-friendly sporting event, this year CBS and Turner will be streaming all March Madness games to iOS devices for free. A perfect way to convince yourself that your iPad 2 post was totally worth it. [Media Memo]
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You know NBA Jam. It’s the classic in-your-face arcade basketball game. Now available on the iPhone, it’s just as boomshakalakastic as I remembered. Backboard breaking dunks, fire burning threes, punk-your-man defence – ah, just the way basketball games should be.
Some people use their Kindles to read books. Others get Kindles to spend hours practising crazy moves with them, like this reader today at the Gizmodo Gallery. Watch him spin the Kindle like a Michael Jordan would spin a basketball.
It’s probably just the latest of King James’s half-hourly endorsement contract fulfillments, but it’s still slightly weird to see the ‘Bron at the 2009 MVP rostrum pulling Flip cams out of a Best Buy bag.
NBA’s official Game Time app has hit the Market, just in time for the playoffs. On top of scores, stats and schedules, it can use Android’s multitasking to track scores in real time.
Spalding has finally jumped on the iPod bandwagon (right down to the ubiquitous “i” moniker) with their new iHoop basketball system.
