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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 …

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Thinking Basketball

Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does the team with the best player usually win? Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. Explore how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as …

Tips For NBA

The NBA is the apex of basketball across the world, with a global audience of over 1 billion viewers in 215 countries. Here are the top six NBA betting tips to maximize your chances of winning. (1) Tracking Line Movements In NBA, the betting lines are often unveiled more than 24 hours ahead of the game, unless there is a …

Download NBA 2019-2020 Schedule

UPDATES on 2019-2020 NBA SCHEDULE The 2019-20 NBA season will move back one week next year and begin October 22, per league sources. This means the playoffs will also begin a week later. The change is to prevent opening night from occurring too early moving forward each year. The FIBA World Cup was also a factor. — Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) …

Sports Stars Who Went Broke

We love watching sports stars do their thing in the fields. But many of them have a different unappealing lifestyle behind the glass doors of fame. Many of them have lost a great deal of their fortune due to one reason or another. Some of these broke sports stars include: Bill Buckner Bill Buckner’s started having bad lucks when he …

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LeBron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete

From the New York Times bestselling author of Return of the King comes the story of LeBron James’s incredible transformation from basketball star to sports and business mogul. With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan before him, LeBron …

What the Absence of Kevin Durant Has Taught Us

When KD landed on his opponent’s foot awkwardly and, twisted his ankle, which resulted in a right ankle contusion, some might have thought that Warriors were the dark horses going into games vs Houston and OKC. Little did they know that, in the next two games, Golden State would end Houston’s nine-game winning streak and then, three days later, demolish …

Kobe Bryant: NBA Prophet or Clueless Pundit?

Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Mentality has seen him do everything after his retirement from the NBA. Bryant’s drive for excellence has led him to produce an Oscar-winning short film, write a book, and even multiply a $6M investment to $200M. Heck, he and his wife are even expecting a fourth daughter soon. From film producer, writer, businessman, and father. What else …

Is James Harden The Most Dominant Scorer Since Wilt Chamberlain?

After finishing the 2017-18 season as the NBA’s top regular season team and taking the Golden State Warriors to a 7th game in the 2018 Western Conference Finals, the Houston Rockets were considered among the Top 4 Contenders to win the NBA title this season. But after a combination of circumstances and events, the Rockets had a slow start to …

NBA Net Rating: 5 Players That Are Helping Their Teams in 2018

The NBA is all about analytics and the league as a whole has every reason to be. The league arguably has more talent now than ever and several franchises have opted to hoard it. Finding ways to compete at a high level still requires landing marquee players, but coaches and front offices also need to get a little creative. That …

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SprawlBall

SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, and how. The field of basketball analytics has leaped to overdrive thanks to Kirk Goldsberry, whose visual maps of players, teams, and positions have helped teams understand …