NBA.com brought fans the first-ever live Webcast in streaming video of a major professional sports league game as the Dallas Mavericks played host to the Sacramento Kings on Friday, April 13. Michael Finley scored 31 points as Dallas won 101-97.

Fans were able to choose to watch the game with either an English, Spanish or Mandarin Chinese audio feed, or experience the action in 360-degree controllable video using Be Here technology.

As an added feature, fans were able to create their own video highlight reels during the game with a special In Progress edition of My Highlights.

Go behind the scenes for footage from the Webcast: 28.8+ | ISDN+

The Webcast experiment, produced exclusively by NBA Entertainment, was available to fans worldwide with both broadband and narrowband connections (56k modem or greater) using
RealPlayer 8 Basic.

To watch the Kings-Mavericks Webcast, fans needed to be connected to the Internet with at least a 56k modem, and they needed RealPlayer 8, which is available free at at Real.com.