During a late June workout, Duncan Robinson was focused on the speed of his shot release.

As a veteran NBA sharpshooter, the ability to get his jumper off quickly is vital for Robinson. Before he could stop this particular workout, he had to make three consecutive corner three-pointers without holding the ball for more than 0.4 seconds on any one shot. But how to track that sort of thing?

The answer lay inside the Spalding TF DNA ball Robinson was using. Produced by a company called Sport IQ, the ball contains a sensor capturing everything from simple makes and misses to metrics like the arc of each