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Daryl Morey is Oppenheimer for the NBA’s nuclear offensive ageIt’s Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees. ...

Here are increasingly radical solutions to combat the NBA’s overpowered offensesScoring in the NBA has ticked up at an exponential rate in the last decade. It doesn’t take Hercule Poirot to figure out what killed NBA defenses. This is a shooter’s league now....

Redditor convinced Memphis Grizzlies lying about Jaren Jackson Jr.'s defensive statsThe Memphis Grizzlies have only had one Defensive Player of the Year winner — Marc Gasol (2013) — but that could change this year. Right now, forward Jaren Jackson Jr. is the favorite to win the 2023 DPOY Award despite only playing 33 games this year. He’s a massive favorite actually. His odds curre...

What the hell?! Now CP3 tests positive for COVID, as walking-wounded playoffs roll on [Update]

Ughhhhh....

Introducing: The Shabazz Assist

Two years ago, Grantland's Kirk Goldsberry introduced the Kobe Assist, a new statistic that "proves that missing shots is sometimes just as valuable as making them." Goldsberry's analysis was interesting, but it left out a key component: the dunkpass. You see, Goldsberry examined what percentage o...

Every Shot Kevin Durant Has Taken In His Career, In One Awesome Chart

"Every shot Kevin Durant has taken in the NBA" is the kind of thing that belongs in a museum, in some fashion. Kirk Goldsberry at Grantland made a chart of exactly that, and shoved it into his piece on the evolution of KD today. It's great. I can't stop staring at it. I want it on my wall. I want it...

Cool Charts: Where The NBA's Best Scorers Are Getting Their Shots

Last Friday on Grantland, Kirk Goldsberry released a great series of charts breaking down the top NBA scorers and shooters from various spots on the floor. The graphics—interactives, thanks to Bostonography's Andy Woodruff—are revealing as always, especially Dirk Nowitzki's:...

Paul George, In Two Charts

Kirk Goldsberry has a new post on Paul George over at Grantland, which you should go read. It includes the charts above, which tell the story of George's shooting numbers sinking like a bag of anvils, and some of that is hard to figure, like the numbers close to the rim. But some is really hard to e...

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Brady vs. Manning, Visualized: Kirk Goldsberry, who is usually plotting out those cool NBA shot charts, took a swing at a comparison of Brady vs. Manning on Grantland, organizing their efficiency by where they throw the ball. [Grantland]...

by Kyle Wagner|

|Wed Sep 28 2016

Here's A New Stat To Figure Out The Best Scorers In The NBA

Field goal percentage is misleading. We know that, because if it wasn't, Tyson Chandler wouldn't threaten to break 70 percent every year, and Reggie Evans would produce a literal black hole in each of his box scores, which would consume their immediate surroundings and we'd have no idea what happene...

by Kyle Wagner|

|Wed Sep 28 2016

“Are You A Nerd?” And Other Questions We Asked Our Fellow Nerds At The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

Last weekend, I went to the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Attendance has gone up every year, and it gets harder and harder to get a feel for who actually goes to this thing: Why were they there? Were they still all sabermetrics geeks? High-powered businessmen? To find out, I di...

by dmr|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Four Things You Can Learn About The NBA By Skimming Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Research Papers

The Sloan Sports Analytics Conference is under way in Boston and, though we sent no intrepid reporters to Dorkapalooza this year, the conference happily made its research paper finalists publicly available on its website. Let's blearily page through and see if we can't learn a few things. (We're foc...

by Isaac Rauch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

Jocks, Geeks, And The Search For Common Ground At This Year's MIT Sports Analytics Conference

Chuck Salter reports from Dorkapalooza, where Kirk Goldsberry was the star attraction and team executives did what they could to talk a lot and say little. [Fast Company]...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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