By Brendan Kent I’ll start with a full disclosure: I’m a biased Oregonian who believes that the Lillard-McCollum 2020 ticket is America’s best hope for a brighter tomorrow. That being said, I think a number of neutrals...
Category - NBA Basketball
file | Play in new windowBy Benedict Brady As a league, the NBA is well-known for its innovation and adaptation to new trends. No trend currently embodies this idea as much as the focus on small-ball. Small-ball is a hard...
By Andrew Puopolo In the past couple of years, there has been increased debate over who the greatest NBA player of all time is. Lebron’s win over the 73-9 Warriors in 2016 gave him a huge boost in the GOAT debate that had...
By Austin Tymins On April 9, Russell Westbrook broke Oscar Robertson’s purportedly-unbreakable regular season record of 41 triple doubles against the Denver Nuggets. Some have called the feat arbitrary while others say it is...
By Robert Feinberg The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once said that change is the only constant in life. While his teaching is from thousands of years ago, it can easily be applied to the rules of modern day sports. Rules...
By Nicholas Heath In the 2013 NBA Finals, right before Ray Allen hit what will inevitably go down as one of the greatest shots of all time, hundreds of Heat fans were already filing out of the American Airlines Arena, cementing...
By Henry Johnson The NBA playoffs have arrived at last. With the first round series set, basketball analysts are looking to regular season results for information about postseason matchups. NESN, for instance, points to the Bulls...
By Brendan Kent Home courts aren’t the fortresses they once were in the NBA. In a piece from 2015, ESPN NBA Insider Tom Haberstroh highlighted a general decline in home winning percentage since 1975, and a sharp decline since...
By Andrew Puopolo and Benedict Brady In sports bars around the country, people are constantly arguing the merits of their respective sports teams. Fans of the New York Yankees and Boston Celtics will often cite their superiority...
By Henry Johnson Earlier this week, we used data from Basketball-Reference to examine the NBA’s trend toward older coaches. Now, let’s look at whether coaches of different ages see different outcomes. To do this, we can...