Hey, what just jumped out of the backboard?
It'll look at first like the fake ads on the backstops at Major League Baseball ballparks -- it's there on the TV, but not at the event.
SportVision, which created the first-and-10 yellow line for football games, has created a "backboard slideout" graphic that will be used by TNT on tonight's telecast of the NBA All-Star game (5 p.m.).
It's supposed to give viewers a graphic bio of the guy when he's shooting a free throw -- or anything else TNT wants to put in the box, like close-up of the shooter's eye, footage from another camera... It's a virtual screen to do whatever the heck they want with it.
It all sounds kinda weird and we won't know what to make of it until we see it.