Although basketball now attracts more nerds than Comic Con, basketball statistics are still all over the place. Maybe years of SportVU player-tracking data will someday bring clarity to the field, but for now it’s a kaleidoscope of imperfect metrics. Virtually all stats that try to infer player value from the various on-court actions (shots, rebounds, […]
On Jan. 19, 2006, Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady Volunteers defeated Vanderbilt 80-68, making Summitt the first woman in NCAA basketball history to win 900 career games. Ten years after that landmark win, women in coaching haven’t come quite as far as one might have imagined back in ’06. In fact, they’re even more underrepresented today […]
With a 20-26 record, compiled against the still-comparatively-tough Western Conference, the Sacramento Kings are the picture of an average NBA team. They aren’t outright bad — unlike during most of the franchise’s recent history — but the best they can hope for this season is to outduel the likes of Utah and Portland for the […]
With a 20-26 record, compiled against the still-comparatively-tough Western Conference, the Sacramento Kings are the picture of an average NBA team. They aren’t outright bad — unlike during most of the franchise’s recent history — but the best they can hope for this season is to outduel the likes of Utah and Portland for the […]
On Monday night the most anticipated NBA game of the year was played between the San Antonio Spurs and the Golden State Warriors. Did you get a chance to watch it? No? You don’t have NBA TV, the peculiar channel that the NBA usually dumps its trash games onto? Damn shame, it was a lot […]
