Metta World Peace Launches App for Amateur Basketball Games

Metta World Peace, the retired Lakers player, is launching an app for amateur basketball games, modeled after gym-subscription startup ClassPass

Metta World Peace, the former Los Angeles Lakers basketball player, is launching an app aimed at building a community of athletes looking to play basketball.

Mr. World Peace, who also is an angel investor in startups, has founded Los Angeles-based XvsX Inc., a company modeled after the gym-subscription startup ClassPass Inc. For $5 a month, XvsX Sports users will get unlimited access to games. The company works with gyms at underutilized high-end facilities, in the same way Airbnb Inc. rents out homes or rooms that aren’t...Sign in or subscribe for access to peerless insight & analysis, curated data & interactives, and networking events.

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