Built from Experience.
Driven by Data.

My name is Kevin Bright. I was born in Mannheim, Germany, and I've been playing basketball my entire life.

At 14, I moved to the Urspringschule basketball academy — one of Germany's best development programs. We won three NBBL youth championships, and I was named Rookie of the Year. I represented Germany at the U18 European Championship and the Albert-Schweitzer-Tournament in my hometown.

After the ProB championship with Team Ehingen and a season in the ProA, I got a scholarship to Vanderbilt University in the United States — playing in the SEC, one of the top conferences in college basketball. I came back after one year for family reasons and signed with the Fraport Skyliners in the BBL, Germany's top league. I played alongside future national team players and under coaches like Gordon Herbert, who later coached Germany to the 2023 World Championship.

Playing in Germany's top professional league

Injuries slowed me down. A stress fracture cost me most of my second BBL season. I moved to Nürnberg in the ProA, represented Germany at the 2015 Summer Universiade (we won Silver), and eventually stepped away from professional basketball.

After hanging up my jersey, I completed a Master's degree in Computer Science. That's when everything clicked: I realized the power of data — how the right information, structured and accessible, can change decisions fundamentally. The basketball world still runs on gut feelings, word of mouth, and opaque backroom deals. I knew I had the rare combination to change that: a decade of firsthand experience on the court and the technical foundation to actually build the platform that makes transparency possible. CourtSide is where those two worlds meet — deep basketball knowledge and real engineering.

Throughout my career, I signed contracts without knowing what other players earned. I chose clubs based on word of mouth, not data. I had agents who promised things they couldn't deliver. I wish I had a tool like CourtSide. So I built it.