NEW YORK—NBA fans in India will see the league’s first streaming of a regular-season game via Facebook Live on Sunday when Golden State visits the Sacramento Kings, the league announced Saturday.
The Kings, owned by India-born technology businessman Vivek Ranadive, will be hosting their fourth annual Bollywood Night—celebrating India culture, music and cinema—around the contest.
The game will be geo-targeted to fans in India over the Facebook pages of the NBA, Kings and Golden State Warriors.
The stream will feature the new NBA Mobile View feed that delivers closer images of game action optimized for viewing on smaller screens of phones and tablets.
The NBA boasts more than one million Facebook likes from India and the first live sports program on Facebook Live, NBA TV coverage of training camps in 2015.
Golden State has the NBA’s best record at 31-6 and past Most Valuable Players Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant. The Kings are 15-21, ninth in the Western Conference.
Forecasts for severe weather Saturday has prompted the NBA to postpone the scheduled Portland Trail Blazers home game against the Detroit Pistons, the league announced.
The contest was moved to Sunday night. Neither team has a game on Monday but both are on the road Tuesday.
Heavy snow, high winds and accumulating ice were predicted for the Portland area and much of Oregon on Saturday night.
The Trail Blazers, 16-22, own the eighth and final playoff position in the Western Conference by percentage points over Sacramento despite losing seven of their past 10 games.
At 17-21, the Pistons have also lost seven of their past 10 games. They rank 11th in the Eastern Conference, two games behind the Chicago Bulls for the last playoff berth in the East.
