By Elliot Chin Recently, as the Boston Celtics were on the brink of history, attempting to be the first team to come back from a 3-0 series deficit, a friend asked me if streakiness had anything to do with the Celticsā...
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This season, games are being played in home stadiums, but one major factor of what makes a home stadium a āhomeā is missing: the fans.
On Friday night, Zion Williamson put up 36 points on a preposterous 14/15 shooting split, with his lone miss being his only shot from 3.
By Erik Johnsson: Since its birth in 1979, weāve watched the 3-point shot evolve from a signal of desperation to a cornerstone of offenses around the league. Any fan of the sport knows that teams have gradually embraced the...
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2016: A (Mostly) Statistical Year in Review
By Andrew Puopolo As 2016 winds to a close, we take a look back on 55 reasons why this year was a particularly crazy year in the world of sports. NFL 1.) Both teams that made the Super Bowl failed to make the playoffs the...
By Adam Gilfix About three weeks ago, I put up a post on that annoying phrase so often used by the media: ātalk about.āĀ Having broken down its prevalence using metrics on the percentage of interviews and questions that...
By Harrison Chase and Carlos Pena-Lobel Ā In a post we wrote last spring, we looked at the teams with the best passing and movement over the course of the 2013-2014 NBA season. Having done this, we will now attempt to determine...
Following in the footsteps of rigged lotteries and expelled superstars, the NBA conspiracy theory du jour holds that referees work their magic to help the Miami Heat win games. Paul George has griped about it and The Onion has...
By Ty Aderhold When one looks at the NBA, it is easy to see that it is a superstar-driven league.Ā Most experts will tell you it is almost impossible to win the championship without at least one superstar.[1] At the same time...