Sports physical therapy company Proteus Motion has announced a $3.8 million fundraising round led by former NBA commissioner David Stern and Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment. The company was formerly known as Boston Biomotion before rebranding as Proteus Motion.
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Proteus Motion has developed the …
Proteus Motion has developed the Proteus system, a strength training system that’s widely used by baseball pitchers to practice their pitching motions. The machine also tracks user movement data through its software.
Professional athletes lose a lot of …
Professional athletes lose a lot of money to fraud. Research from Ernst & Young estimates the losses at almost $600 million from 2004 to 2018. And those are just the amounts publicly claimed by athletes. David Byrne wants to help change that. As a lifelong sports enthusiast and Washington Wizards fan, Byrne started BrightLights after reading countless stories about athletes losing millions of dollars to schemes and con artists.
While he can’t disclose the names of …
On SeatGeek, a New York-based online …
On SeatGeek, a New York-based online ticket agency, the average resale price of Warriors tickets sold before this season’s opening night (Oct. 24) was $311. That number dropped to $253 during the season’s first week and plunged to $186 in the nearly four weeks since Curry’s injury, which will sideline him until at least February.
The disparity in demand for Warriors …
The disparity in demand for Warriors tickets on the road is even greater. Golden State ranks sixth in the NBA this month in average price of a ticket ($94) to its road games, but that’s a 43% drop from the same period last year ($165), according to Seat Geek. Fans in Atlanta can buy a ticket for Monday night’s game against the Hawks for as little as $15 on SeatGeek. In Charlotte, $10 will buy a ticket to Wednesday night’s Warriors-Hornets matchup.
The Warriors still count as one of the …
The Warriors still count as one of the NBA’s marquee box-office draws, a byproduct of their dominance the past half-decade. And, by some ticket metrics, their shiny new arena seems to offset the team’s troubles in the standings. StubHub, a San Francisco-based online ticket agency, said the average resale ticket price on its website for the Warriors’ first eight regular-season home games was $194, an increase of 8% compared to last year ($179). Tickets for the season opener against the Los Angeles Clippers on Oct. 24 went for an average of $345, compared to $302 last season.
It wasn’t long ago the Philadelphia …
It wasn’t long ago the Philadelphia 76ers sat at the bottom of the NBA’s attendance rankings. But after six years of rebuilding, the Sixers have returned to the top of the league’s attendance records and recently reported their 100th consecutive sellout game before beating the Miami Heat 113-86 at the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday.
Sixers president Chris Heck said the …
Sixers president Chris Heck said the team only sold 3,500 season tickets in the 2013-14 season, “and the majority of the holders were brokers,” he said in an interview. The Sixers finished 17th on ESPN’s NBA attendance ranking that season and dropped to 30th in the 2015 season. The average ticket price was roughly $95, compared with an average ticket price across the league that season of $144, according to data provided to CNBC by Ticketmaster.
But one season after advancing to the …
But one season after advancing to the Eastern Conference semifinals, Ticketmaster says it has seen demand surge for Sixers’ tickets, with sales spiking 91% through the first seven home games and average ticket prices rising 28%. The average ticket price for Sixers’ contests this season is $131, while the average ticket price for the league is $107, Ticketmaster said.