FIBA extends partnership with sports data firm Genius Sports

The International Basketball Federation and Genius Sports have signed a new deal that will see their partnership extended until 2019.

The new deal will see sports data and technology company Genius sports increase its coverage of basketball events. The company expects to collect and distribute live data to the betting and media markets from more than 2,000 high-profile games at FIBA events until 2017, FIBA said in a statement.

Among the events included are the 2016 FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and 2017 Continental Cups.

FIBA and Genius Sports partnership started in 2005, when the basketball association tapped the company via its subsidiary SportingPulse to co-develop and distribute a basketball statistics tool called LiveStats, which enables courtside capturing of live game statistics, live webcast publishing and reporting to coaches and media.