An app that uses AI to help you improve your basketball shot just raised $4 million

Let's be real: you are most certainly never going to be as good as Steve Nash, Chris Paul, James Harden -- or really any professional NBA player. But it probably won't stop you from trying to practice or model your game around your favorite players, and spend hours upon hours figuring out how to get better. And while there are going to be plenty of attempts to smash image recognition and AI into that problem, a company called NEX Team is hoping to soften the blow a bit by helping casual players figure out their game, rather than trying to be as good as a professional NBA player. Using phone cameras and image recognition on the back end, its primary app HomeCourt will measure a variety of variables like shot trajectory, jump height, and body position, and help understand how to improve a player's shooting form. It's not designed to help that player shoot like Ray Allen, but at least start hitting those mid-range jumpers.