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 …
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 …
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 …
Top 4 Contenders for the 2018-2019 NBA Season
The 2018-2019 NBA season keeps inching closer and closer to tip-off. We have less than a month before all of our favorite stars hit the hardwood. The question looms: beyond Golden State, who are the top contenders this year? We are going to look at the top four teams according to the implied probability provided by sports betting outlets. Top …
The Extra 2%
How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First by Jonah Keri What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League …
2018-2019 NBA Schedule Rest Days Analysis
For each team, we take team schedules and tag the “game-day”s and “off-day”s. This way, we can analyze the rest days patterns. Let’s code: X as the game-day, and O, as the off-day.
Download NBA 2018-2019 Schedule
UPDATES on 2018-2019 NBA SCHEDULE The full NBA schedule has been released … CAN'T. WAIT. ? https://t.co/4ejRMoIKJ9 pic.twitter.com/QMWN9u1kPe — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 10, 2018 ???? Our #KiaTipOff18 schedule! pic.twitter.com/CZi86ue28Q — NBA (@NBA) August 8, 2018 NBA on Christmas Day should be ? (First reported by @nytimes, confirmed by ESPN.) pic.twitter.com/4XZyhX0Woj — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 8, 2018 NBA will release its …
The Capulator
Despite its ugly UI, this tool has team salary caps, player transactions and lots of useful front office stuff.
Basketball (and Other Things)
Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Michael Jordan is the acknowledged greatest basketball player of all-time, but what season was Michael Jordan the best version of Michael Jordan? Who’s in The Disrespectful Dunk Hall of Fame? What’s allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? BASKETBALL (AND OTHER THINGS) presents readers with …
Golden Days
Golden Days: West’s Lakers, Steph’s Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball In Golden Days, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum uses two teams—today’s Golden State Warriors and the L.A. Lakers of the early 1970s—to trace the dynamic history of the National Basketball Association, which for much of the last half-century has marched memorably through the state of California. Tying …
2017-18 MVP Race
Can anyone beat Harden to the 2018 MVP Award? The race to the top for the NBA stats is one that typically goes into overdrive at this time of year. From the start of the season, all those months ago, James Harden has been the man everyone has to beat, and few have looked likely to do so. All that …
Faster, Higher, Stronger
The New Science of Creating Superathletes, and How You Can Train Like Them Publications as varied as Wired, Men’s Fitness, and The New Yorker are abuzz over the New York Times bestseller Faster, Higher, Stronger. In it, veteran journalist Mark McClusky explains how today’s top athletes are turning to advanced technology and savvy science to improve their performance. Sports buffs …
Basketball is Jazz
Harvey Penick wrote “The Little Red Book” to teach golf enthusiasts the world over, fans and players, the nuances of the game. He succeeded brilliantly, and in the process, he inspired David Thorpe to do the same thing for the sport he has spent a lifetime coaching. Coach Thorpe, an ESPN NBA Analyst for the past ten years, has spent …