NBA 3D on Christmas Day (And Two Other Games) on ESPN 3D

After the previously announced NBA 3D games. The NBA will have more 3D games on ESPN3D for the 2010-2011 NBA season. The first new game will be on Christmas day, so even more reason to ask for that awesome 3Dtv. The NBA 3D Christmas day game features the Chicago Bulls at the New York Knicks.

The other games that have been added are in Phoenix, with the Suns hosting the Lakers and the Trailblazers on January 5th and January 7th. That being said, here is the full NBA 3D schedule.

Planning multiple events in the same city over a 3D week like this, is the way to make 3D more profitable. The cameras are expensive, and there is limited supply, so they need to be moved further than HD cameras for each game, so playing 2 games in three days at the same location could be huge in raising profits for ESPN3D, and hopefully keep the service around for longer. The cameras are already going to be in Phoenix for the College Football National Championship game, so it makes perfect sense that they would add these games in Phoenix.

In the future, this seems like a simple thing they could do. For example if ESPN knows in advance that they are going to be putting the preseason NIT on ESPN 3D, why not work with the NBA to have the Knicks have a home game the next day. They could even take it one step further and work with the Big East to schedule a Rutgers or UNCONN game around that weekend so they do not have to move the 3D equipment as much.

This will slowly become less problematic as 3D equipment moves more toward the norm, but for the time being, this is a simple smart way for ESPN to produce more 3D events, and save money doing it. It seems the executives at ESPN are very smart, so I expect to see more games like this.

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