Boston Celtics Will Beat Los Angeles Lakers in NBA Finals, Predicts Sports Technology Tool

An algorithm shows the combined force of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, Kendrick Perkins and Rajon Rondo gives the advantage over Kobe Bryant and the rest of the Lakers' top scorers.

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Lenovo Stat information is collected courtside at 29 NBA arenas on IBM ThinkPad X60 Tablets by statisticians who log approximately 500 pieces of data in during each game. The data is delivered to a Sybase database at the NBA's data center in New York for analysis, before being quickly pushed out to the NBA.com site, as well as televisions, mobile phones and other distribution points, Glideman noted.

Glideman said that the NBA plans to enhance Lenovo Stat in the future so fans can see player and team stats in dream match-ups. For example, the tool could square-off the 2007-2008 Celtics against the 1985-1986 NBA Champion Celtics squad, which featured NBA legends Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish.

"We're taking all of [NBA] history and applying those algorithms against it. It's on the road map and definitely something we plan on doing with it," he added.

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