{"id":1008,"date":"2019-11-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/reports\/why-ultra-wide-band-technology-has-been-scoring-points-in-basketball-for-years\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T05:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T05:12:26","slug":"ultra-wide-band-technology-in-basketball","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/leadersinsport.com\/performance-institute\/articles\/ultra-wide-band-technology-in-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Ultra Wide Band Technology Has Been Scoring Points in Basketball for Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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UWB tech’s movement tracker has the ability to transform practice programs across elite sport.<\/p>\n \n \n \n

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One of the world’s largest tech companies is relying on Ultra Wide Band and obviously has big plans with the technology. In the US, the NBA has been flying high for years with UWB and the college teams are following suit – for good reason.<\/h4>\n

Ever since Apple introduced its new iPhones with built-in UWB chips this fall, ultra wide band technology [UWB] has been on everyone’s lips. On the product side, Apple hints at UWB’s greatest strengths: movements and positions can be tracked within centimeter precision. And the product presentation ends with the words: ‘And this is just the beginning’.<\/p>\n

The truth is: this isn\u2019t the beginning as UWB has been utilized in sports for few years now, most notably in professional basketball. It was four years ago when the first NBA team, the Philadelphia 76ers, purchased an UWB-based live tracking system from KINEXON Sports<\/a> and started to analyze their training sessions utilizing Kinexon\u2019s precise position data.<\/p>\n

70% of all NBA teams and a rapidly growing number college teams are utilizing UWB-based tracking systems.<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

From that moment on, coaches were able to follow every movement their players made on court – in real time, from clear angles and with processed performance data visualized within a software platform. A big plus: in contrast to other tracking technologies, UWB records movements in all directions, including height.<\/p>\n

Four years later, more than 70% of NBA teams like the Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz, Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets and others track their training sessions with KINEXON Sports and rely on the accuracy UWB provides.<\/p>\n

The technology has arrived in college basketball, too. In the 2019\/2020 season alone, 15 NCAA teams, including the University of Tennessee, Stanford University, University of Iowa, and West Virginia University, have come onboard and are using the system of the multiple award-winning full-stack provider from Germany.<\/p>\n

For Mehdi Bentanfous, the Managing Director at KINEXON Inc., the demand for UWB-based performance tracking in college basketball is remarkable. He says: “We are excited about the increasing demand for our product at the collegiate level. One reason for this development is for sure that NCAA teams train more and more similar to NBA conditions. Nevertheless, they have a much smaller budget and staff. We are therefore particularly proud that they are also convinced of the value proposition our product delivers.\u201d<\/p>\n

NBA and college teams primarily pursue four objectives<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

UWB tracking data gives coaches access to more than 180 metrics that document performance and load seamlessly. And with these, four goals are being strategically pursued:.<\/p>\n