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K.C.-based ShotTracker, which specializes in basketball technology, has raised $5M in capital, including contributions from Basketball HOFer MAGIC JOHNSON and former NBA Commissioner DAVID STERN. The company "manufactures sensors that record a player’s movements and reveal various performance statistics and analytics, ranging from player efficiency to shooting charts that depict how players fare by taking shots from various parts of the court" (KCSTAR.com, 10/19).

SILVER SCREEN: U.S. swimmer RYAN LOCHTE is "lining up his Hollywood debut," as he is "set to star" in the comedy "A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY," joining SHARON STONE, TONY GOLDWYN, FAMKE JANSSEN and ELLEN BURSTYN (HOLLYWOODREPORTER.com, 10/18)....Warner Brothers' "SPACE JAM" is "returning to the big screen for a limited run next month in honor of the film's 20th anniversary" (HOLLYWOODREPORTER.com, 10/18).

NAMES: NFL Panthers Owner JERRY RICHARDSON and his wife, ROSALIND, donated $1M to TreesCharlotte and its efforts to grow, protect and diversify Charlotte's celebrated tree canopy (CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, 10/20)....The Univ. of Texas yesterday announced it is renaming a campus street in honor of former AD DELOSS DODDS (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 10/20)....Patriots President JONATHAN KRAFT yesterday kicked off the ’16 SuperCorrExpo conference with a presentation about the history of The Kraft Group (SuperCorrExpo)....Tennis player NICK KYRGIOS will be “free to participate" in the NBA All-Star Celebrity game in February after being "released from his contract” to participate in the ATP ABN Amro event in the Netherlands (AP, 10/20)....Warriors F KEVIN DURANT appears on the cover of the Nov. 3 issue of Rolling Stone (THE DAILY)....Actress KERRY WASHINGTON and her husband, former NFLer NNAMDI ASOMUGHA, earlier this month had their second child, CALEB KELECHI ASOMUGHA (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 10/19).

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SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

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