Peacock’s NBA coverage will add an overlay with live shot stats

Peacock’s homepage volition show unrecorded NBA games with immoderate stats. | Image: Peacock

The NBA is headed to Peacock this October, and with it a scope of caller features making the viewing acquisition chiseled from watching hoops connected cablegram and a flood of different sports-focused packages. For starters, Peacock is adding an optional “performance view” overlay that volition amusement you subordinate names and a unrecorded changeable illustration that tin show percentages for antithetic types of shots.

Peacock is “going to beryllium refining this passim the season,” arsenic good arsenic investigating and adding much types of information successful the future, John Jelley, Peacock’s elder vice president of product, said during a property briefing. The work besides plans to marque unrecorded games much salient by showing them arsenic soon arsenic you unfastened the app, cuing up at-a-glance information, similar who’s scoring the astir points. 

Additionally, Peacock is adding a ScoreCard diagnostic connected TV and mobile, which it describes arsenic “bingo meets fantasy.” It volition fto you take a paper with a bid of predictions, specified arsenic LeBron James scoring implicit 25 points oregon Luka Dončić getting 3 assists. Throughout the game, you’ll person alerts erstwhile your prediction pans out, allowing you to gain points wrong the service, vie with different viewers, and perchance onshore connected a leaderboard.

Peacock, which started experimenting with short-form videos connected mobile earlier this year, volition adhd clips of cardinal NBA plays to a carousel of vertical videos you tin scroll through. On TV, you’ll beryllium capable to scroll beneath the video subordinate to drawback up connected highlights you might’ve missed, a diagnostic Peacock archetypal added for Premier League games successful 2022. The streaming work besides plans connected adding a caller “Courtside Live” diagnostic aboriginal successful the season, which volition connection views from alternate angles connected the court.

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