the nba's digital archive project announced

one iconic rebound you will be able to watch over and over again

the nba moves us one step closer to a world where any show ever made is instantly available. their latest venture is a project to make 60 years of footage available for viewing or remixing into custom highlight packages. it will take six years to complete and will most likely be available through the nba website and on-demand-type systems, but the first iterations will show up immediately. and the capabilities will be mindblowing.

Since 1996, courtside statisticians have been assigning time codes to plays so they can be matched to taped broadcast footage. That coding will make it easy for computers to search for, say, all the 3-point attempts by Michael Jordan with less than 2 minutes of play in a game where a team leads by five points or less.