By Cameron Dowd, Andrew Mooney, and Kevin Meers This post can also be seen at grantland.com here. North Korean basketball enthusiasts have long remained anonymous, as their sport flew as far under the radar as most other...
Category - NBA Basketball
By Ty Aderhold When one looks at the NBA, it is easy to see that it is a superstar-driven league. Most experts will tell you it is almost impossible to win the championship without at least one superstar.[1] At the same time...
By Ryan Fortin On January 27th this year, Celtics fans across the country watched their favorite team beat the rival Miami Heat in an overtime thriller. Not many people celebrated, however, as the team’s star point guard...
By Harry Chiel Every so often, a playoff series in the NHL, MLB, or NBA will be fought between a team that has just come off of a sweep and a team that has barely survived a competitive 7-game series. While the latter team is...
Since the New York Knicks signed 38-year-old Rasheed Wallace two weeks ago, there have been a plethora of articles and “hot takes” in the media about how the Knicks have become “the oldest team in NBA...
Inspired by the work of my economics professor Roland G. Fryer on the marginal effect of getting into one of the three premier exam high schools in New York City on academic achievement, I decided to take a look at the effect on...
by Andrew Mooney and Alex Koenig This post can also be seen on Boston.com here. The Celtics are in an interesting position heading into Thursday’s NBA draft. It’s arguable that it is time for the team to rebuild; three of...
by Andrew Mooney This post can also be seen on Boston.com here. The 2012 Eastern Conference Finals had the feel of a showdown between poker players shoving all their chips to the center of the table. By Game 7, the mind games...
by Andrew Mooney This post can also be seen on Boston.com here. On the surface, the matchup looks awfully familiar. The Celtics, the league’s best defensive team, meet the explosive Miami Heat in the Eastern Conference...
By Alex Koenig The NBA Draft Lottery was instituted by the league in 1985 after accusations that teams were deliberately tanking to secure the first pick in the draft. The logic went that it was worth a team’s while to give up...