NBA Summer League Stokes Digital Business
By JOHN LOMBARDO SportsBusiness Journal Published August 03, 2009 The recent NBA Summer League in Las Vegas set an attendance record while becoming the latest content provider for the league’s digital operations. Since partnering with founder Warren LeGarie in 2007, the NBA has added marketing muscle to the rookie summer league, which featured 22 teams [...]
IBM hosts Phoenix Suns Coach Alvin Gentry
Phoenix Suns head coach Alvin Gentry teamed up with Phoenix area executives from IBM to talk strategy, team building, and management insights. HallPass arranged the speaking engagement as coach Gentry was the featured speaker during a recent management luncheon. This was the first installment in what hopes to be a long term relationship with IBM [...]
Commissioner Stern at NBA Summer League
Commissioner David Stern visited NBA Summer League Presented by EA Sports and shared his pleasure with the annual event. Embedded video from <a href="https://www.nba.com/video" mce_href="https://www.nba.com/video">NBA Video</a>
HallPass Running Operations at adidas Nations
This week the world’s top 18 and under basketball players from Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the United States will congregate for adidas Nations. Athletes from six regions of the world will get together in intense international training and competition at the Integrated Development Center in Dallas, Texas. HallPass Media will handle all [...]
Ovi Sets New Standard on the Strip
Ovechkin, Kesler take 2K10 to the Strip Young guns perform in first ever outdoor motion capture session for upcoming hockey game By Ryan Greene, Las Vegas Sun Ryan Kesler wonders if his pals back in Livonia, Mich., will even believe him. This fall, when playing NHL 2K10 on his Nintendo Wii, The Vancouver Canucks center [...]
Alex Ovechkin Wins NHL MVP Again
NHL.com LAS VEGAS — It seems that Alex Ovechkin just can’t lose here in this desert oasis. After reporting Thursday afternoon that he was up by $500 at the blackjack tables, Ovechkin came to the NHL Awards Show and hauled in both the League’s MVP awards — the Hart Trophy, awarded by the writers, and [...]
2009 NBA Summer League Presented by EA SPORTS Schedule Announced
–10 PLAYOFF TEAMS INCLUDING NBA CHAMPION LAKERS SET TO COMPETE– NEW YORK, June 22, 2009 – Twenty-one NBA teams, including the 2009 NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers, will compete in this year’s NBA Summer League presented by EA SPORTS in a 55-game schedule that was announced today. A team of NBA Development League Select players [...]
Adidas Nations Camp Heads to Portland
Round 2 of the Adidas Nations TEAM USA camp is set to tip off in Portland, OR May 29-31 as the top players in America prepare for the upcoming adidas Nations Experience August 4-9 in Dallas, TX. After a very impressive showing in Las Vegas, the class of 2010 and 2011 players look to improve [...]
Summer League goes 10 for 10 in NBA Draft Lottery
Maybe it’s Vegas luck…but for the first time in Summer League history, the top 10 draft picks are scheduled to compete in the 2009 NBA Summer League presented by EA Sports. Highlighted by the Los Angeles Clippers garnering the #1 selection, the draft lottery played out as planned and fans can expect to see a [...]
USA Falls To World Team at ’09 Nike Hoop Summit
The 2009 USA Junior National Select Team watched a nine-point lead slip away in the fourth quarter as the World Select Team rallied to outscore the USA by 17 points in the final stanza to capture a 97-89 win in the 12th annual Nike Hoop Summit on Saturday night in Portland, Ore. Xavier Henry (Putnam [...]