Recent news on Cancelled and Postponed Sporting Events

The worldwide spread of coronavirus is impacting sports occasions across martial arts disciplines and throughout the planet. Various sports bodies worldwide are postponing, canceling or altering matches as well as tournaments one after the other person. With the new disease not moving away anytime soon, organizers and sports leagues are weighing on what choices they’re left with. Here is the …

NBA Most Important Games in Basketball History

The last decade had the most impactful games in the history of the NBA, featuring top NBA stars that have always created thrilling moments. However, as much as live games are incredibly entertaining, it pays to go down the memory lane and remind ourselves of the beautiful moments in the past. Here are some of the most significant NBA matches …

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Statistical Sports Models in Excel

What does it take to create a winning sports betting model? Many people are interested in learning how to make smarter sports betting wagers. Not many of those same people are excited at the prospect of learning applied statistics to better inform their choices. You can’t entirely blame them. Statistics has a well-earned reputation for being somewhat inaccessible by non-academics. …

NBA Games Are Still Not Being Played – What Is Next? 

The NBA is still on hold, and there is no precise information about what will happen in the future with the best basketball league in the world. Since March, and the moment when all stopped, many things happened, but neither of them gave some hints about the league’s next steps. Recently we saw that the draft lottery and the combine …

Why You Should Always Question NBA

Introduction As the season would dramatically prove, preseason predictions and odds held little weight in a season that on-paper favorites don’t always translate to on-court success. The 2019-2020 NBA season stands as one of the most unique campaigns in league history, marked by unprecedented challenges and adaptation in the face of the global pandemic. This season reshaped professional basketball from …

Ranking Five of the Best NBA Games of the 2010s

For the staunchest NBA fans out there, the 2010s presented us with some unforgettable encounters. We witnessed some epic duels featuring NBA heavyweights, and for the light-hearted, there were heartbreaks. It was a big decade in one of America’s most popular sport. We have compiled a list of some of the most thrilling NBA games of the last decade for …

Top 10 Highest Paid NBA Players of 2020

The top NBA players are earning millions of dollars annually from lucrative endorsements and their generous salaries. From supermax contracts to short-term deals and other sponsorships, basketball stars are living the dream of any athlete. For the current season, the average NBA player salary is estimated to be around $7.7 million, which is higher than the previous year, where the …

The Richest NBA Team Owners 2020

Sports tournaments are money-spinner and players and team owners are making fortune out of it. NBA is obviously one of the most valued sports associations in the world. Many NBA players earn millions every year from the seasons but the owners of the NBA teams are super-rich. Well, NBA isn’t the only source of their income but it really adds …

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight “offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh”, illuminating his company’s early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world’s most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. Bill Gates named Shoe Dog one of …

Updates on Canceled and Postponed Basketball Events 2020

With the number of COVID-19 cases having surged past a million cases in recent days, there is no doubt that the pandemic is wreaking havoc on virtually every aspect of life including sports. Most sporting calendars have been widely affected leading in postponement and even cancellation of some major events. Now, talking of top sporting action, many basketball events are …

The Three Best Dunks of Corey Maggette’s Duke Career

Watch any Corey Maggette highlight tape, and there are bound to be a lot of dunks. The 6’6” wing had the perfect body to throw down any dunk imaginable during his prime. In a game dominated by amazing athletes, Corey Maggette stood out amongst his peers at every level. He was a man amongst boys in high school, came into …

Clippers Boost Title Hopes With New Arrival

The competition is hotting up in the NBA Western Conference, with loads of action and players starting to show their true form. This has not only been reflected in the audience numbers going up but by a growing interest in the NBA. Teams are, of course, looking at ways to improve their chances of success this season, and the Los …

How Corey Maggette Helped Introduce a New Era at Duke

Coming out of high school, Corey Maggette was one of the most highly recruited players in the nation. He had his choice of schools, and he made it known early on that he would be looking nationwide. Home states schools such as Illinois and Depaul came after him hard, but he was also getting looks from schools with extremely high …

NBA Teams In The Western Conference Currently Competing For A Playoff Spot

Getting a spot in the playoffs is a big deal for any NBA team, but the members of the Western Conference that are in the running at the moment have more to gain than most if they make it through to the next stage. So which teams are currently in contention to secure a place in the playoffs and what …

Knicks reportedly targeting scoring guards in 2020

The New York Knickerbockers are a popular and victorious basketball team that is also referred to as the Knicks. They are an American basketball team that is popularly known for their expertise and professionalism in this ball game. This team is managed in New York Borough. They have over-time competed in many leagues together with the NBA, holding the Atlantic …

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Basketball Data Science: With Applications in R

Using NBA play-by-play data from one season of NBA games, Basketball Data Science: With Applications in R is the perfect book for anyone interested in learning and applying data analytics in basketball. Whether assessing the spatial performance of an NBA player’s shots or doing an analysis of the impact of high-pressure game situations on the probability of scoring, this book …

The NBA Prepares to Welcome the All-Star Game on Sunday

It was a dramatic night on Thursday when the Boston Celtics met the LA Clippers, ahead of the All-Star game. Both teams had come to play following mild personal losses and both teams knew that they would have to do better this time. Their NBA basketball scores were impressive and so evenly matched that it was a bit of challenge …

The Correlation Between Free-Throw Shooting and Success on the Court

The charity strike, or the free-throw line, is one of the most important facets in the game today. Allowing the opposition to shoot freely without any defender in their way can make or break a game. Teams that want to be considered a legitimate threat to win the NBA Championship often have great free-throw shooters. Granted, they have great shooters …

2019-2020 NBA Rest Days Stats

NBA rest days stats that can’t be found elsewhere! Team performances are rated under various rest days types such as 3rd game in 4th days, back-to-backs, 3+ days rest.

2019-2020 NBA Referee Stats

An NBAstuffer classic, keep track of NBA officiating! Referee stats include; games officiated, total experience, home team point differential, winning percentage, total points scored. Splits available main/crew referee.

2019-2020 NBA Power Rankings Chart

A snapshot of NBA team performances according to their offensive and defensive efficiency. Historical chart archive is available as you can go back to any month in the NBA season.

2019-2020 NBA Player Stats

NBA player aggregated statistics, all players on one page, exportable to Excel. Available metrics: Usage rate, offensive/defensive rating. versatility rating and much more.

2019-2020 NBA Advanced Team Stats

Tens of thousands rely on our NBA advanced team stats and visualizations every day. Strength of schedule for past games and remaining games. Available splits: Last 5 Games, Home/Away, Post All-Star, Postseason.

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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The …

What is RJ Barrett’s Ceiling?

Many experts are saying that Zion Williamson is the best player on this year’s NBA draft. But there is a solid number of them which believe that those evaluations are not true. That in fact, the No.3 pick RJ Barrett is the guy who has the biggest potential. Barrett was picked by the New York Knicks. He was projected to …

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The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History

The people behind the blogging collective FreeDarko present the entire history of pro basketball, from the Celtics of Red Auerbach to LeBron and Kobe, with a taxonomy of every fight in NBA history and a feature called The Mustache Index.

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A March to Madness

It’s the book in which America’s favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful bestseller, A Season on the Brink. It’s the book that takes us inside the intensely competitive Atlantic Coast Conference & paints a portrait of how college baskettball is coached & played at the highest level. It’s the book that takes us onto the courts, …

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The Book of Basketball

Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more* Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill …