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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T13:01:55.000Z",
  "site": "https://defector.com",
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  "textContent": "In the summer of 2024, during the WNBA’s Olympic break, several Atlanta Dream players who weren’t competing in Paris had gathered for a midseason training camp of sorts. Anyone watching would have seen what looked like a typical 3-on-3 scrimmage. In reality, it was anything but. The Dream weren’t playing in any ordinary gym, but rather in what might be the world’s most advanced basketball laboratory.\n\nDream players ran across 87 subterranean force plates underneath the court, precisely tracking the force each player generated with their movements. Forty cameras, 20 on each side of the court, captured their movements; multiple optical tracking engines processed skeletal profile data based on the inputs. Ball and basket tracking technology monitored every shot’s arc, depth, and orientation in inch-perfect detail. Sensors sat in players’ waistbands and tracked granular movements like accelerations and decelerations.\n\nThe setting was the Joe Gibbs Human Performance Institute in Charlotte, N.C., originally designed as a biomechanics-heavy recruitment and training hub for pit crew members for the Joe Gibbs NASCAR racing team. But the team quickly realized their facility had potential uses across sports, basketball chief among them. They purchased a wooden floor from the same company that makes the NBA’s, then outfitted the setup with tech typically reserved for actual laboratories.",
  "title": "Can The Jumper Be Hacked? Inside Basketball’s Next Arms Race"
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