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The NBA Players No One Passed To This Season

Here at the dawn of the NBA’s era of big brains and fancy thinking, basketball statistics are more complicated than ever. The best ones, though, still answer dead-simple questions: Which players are good? Which players are not? And of course: Which players are rarely passed the basketball? I stumbled into the answer to that last […]

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The Warriors Are Now Long Shots To Win 73 Games

With a 124-117 overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday, the Golden State Warriors saw their chances of reaching 73 wins and breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls single-season wins record grow faint. The Warriors have now lost two of their last three, and at 69-9, the team will have to win its final four […]

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The Warriors Are Now Long Shots To Win 73 Games

With a 124-117 overtime loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday, the Golden State Warriors saw their chances of reaching 73 wins and breaking the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls single-season wins record grow faint. The Warriors have now lost two of their last three, and at 69-9, the team will have to win its final four […]

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Updated Odds Of The Warriors Going 73-9

With the NBA regular season winding down, the Golden State Warriors are 66-7 and need to go 7-2 over their final nine games to break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record for most wins in a season. We have a guess for how this will play out: Our CARM-Elo prediction system says Golden State has about […]

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Updated Odds Of The Warriors Going 73-9

With the NBA regular season winding down, the Golden State Warriors are 66-7 and need to go 7-2 over their final nine games to break the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls’ record for most wins in a season. We have a guess for how this will play out: Our CARM-Elo prediction system says Golden State has about […]

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