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To Seek Asik or Not to Seek Asik?
Rumors are swirling around Boston, Philadelphia and Houston. Omer Asik (ah-SHEEK) and his lane-clogging abilities are up for sale. The Boston Celtics have assets, in the form of Brandon Bass, Jeff...
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How We Read About the NBA: On Zach Lowe, the Blazers, and NBA Obsessives in...
The Portland Trail Blazers are the surprise of the NBA season. With a record of 25-7, the Blazers have created kindling for heated NBA discussions about “true contenders,” “defense winning...
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SI’s Compendium of Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Quotes With Commentary
In case you don’t feel like spending hours on ESPN’s TrueHoop blog, in which new hoops ideas are analyzed and discussed in a kind of NBA speed-dating scenario which mirrors the organized chaos of the...
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Q&A With Warriors Aficionado David Barnes, March 2014 Edition: Western...
If you’ve watched the Golden State Warriors this year, or read about the Dubs, you have undoubtedly learned how important Andre Iguodala is to the team’s success. After a 12-game absence early in the...
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What A Season It Was, Wasn’t and Could Have Been: Reflecting on the 2013-14...
An inevitable trend often overwhelms the writing and thinking around professional sports. It extends into television, music, literary and film criticism, but it appears most widespread in sports...
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Atlanta Hawks: From Controversy to Chemistry, Team Culture, Selflessness, and...
Late last summer, after NBA observers were infatuated with the free-agency dealings of LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Pau Gasol, and others, the Atlanta Hawks made headlines. Not for signing any of these...
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Celtics Guard Isaiah Thomas (Jr.) and Divine Inspiration
ESPN Boston’s Celtics beat writer Chris Forsberg does a solid job covering the Celtics (with mostly rose-colored glasses, which is kind of necessary based on the last two seasons). In a recent...
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A Plea to the Box-Score Makers: Remove Plus-Minus for Single Games
Single-game plus-minus is often close to useless, which is why analytics folks have attempted to come up with better plus-minus indicators, such as ESPN’s Real Plus-Minus (RPM). Real plus-minus...
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Jackie MacMullan, Jeff Van Gundy, Michael Lewis, Daryl Morey and Shane...
The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference still contains great panels, even if the conference has turned into a watered down, mainstream version of what it once was. Here’s a panel that I’m intrigued by....
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