The NBA bought its parcel of VRI’s facility when it became clear that it needed a fail-safe option for an increasingly sophisticated technical operation powered by robotic efficiency. The official archive in Secaucus, N.J. amounts to 37 petabytes of data, which makes the NBA’s holdings nearly twice the size of the Library of Congress digital collection. The gap is widening every day. The NBA’s trove of data grows by several petabytes each season now that each game is being recorded in high definition from 12 different angles.