{"id":122718,"date":"2017-10-10T05:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=122718"},"modified":"2017-10-10T05:20:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T09:20:13","slug":"nba-japans-rakuten-announce-exclusive-distribution-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/10\/nba-japans-rakuten-announce-exclusive-distribution-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA, Japan&#8217;s Rakuten announce exclusive distribution deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_122726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-122726\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Adam_Silver_15847004771.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122726\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Adam_Silver_15847004771.jpg\" alt=\"NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Photo by Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA - Adam Silver, CC BY-SA 2.0)\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Adam_Silver_15847004771.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Adam_Silver_15847004771-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/800px-Adam_Silver_15847004771-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-122726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=36918279\">NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Photo by Keith Allison from Hanover, MD, USA &#8211; Adam Silver, CC BY-SA 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO\u2014 The National Basketball Association and Rakuten Inc. have announced a marketing partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The deal announced Tuesday makes the Japanese online giant the exclusive distributor in Japan of all live NBA games.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership, Rakuten&#8217;s first with a North American professional league, comes as the internet services company expands its involvement in\u00a0sports.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies said Rakuten will offer the NBA&#8217;s premium live game subscription service exclusively to Rakuten&#8217;s members through NBA.com, the NBA app and for purchase through Rakuten TV, the company&#8217;s video-on-demand service.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, the NBA Champion Golden State Warriors and Rakuten announced a partnership to include the Rakuten logo on all Warriors jerseys beginning in the 2017-18 NBA season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\u2014 The National Basketball Association and Rakuten Inc. have announced a marketing partnership. The deal announced Tuesday makes the Japanese &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":122726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[26984,4286,904,26983],"class_list":["post-122718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-japans-rakuten-announce-exclusive-distribution-deal","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-nba","tag-rakuten-inc","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}