Photo by Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/9/2014
Every free agent in the NBA has had an eye on next summer and the summer after. That explains why LeBron James took a one-year deal with a player option for the second. It is because he, and everyone associated with the league, knew what was coming down the pike. The market is set and […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/7/2014
That James Harden photo started making the rounds as the Dallas Cowboys lost to the San Francisco 49ers 28-17 after the Cowboys last year had the worst statistical season defensively in NFL history. Or something like that. I am usually napping during NFL games Sunday afternoon (when does basketball start?!). But this James Harden photo […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/5/2014
The FIBA World Cup is nearing the end of the group phase as the teams wrap up their five games in six day tour of their groups. The knockout stages will be starting soon and the pressure will ratchet up. At that point, only the best teams and the best players remain. A lot of […]
Chris Paul appears to be a star who can lead the diverse interests of the NBPA. Photo by Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
NBA now selling referee jackets @NBASTORE ($50) pic.twitter.com/kMyU9EVrPz — Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) September 5, 2014
Photo by Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/4/2014
Before Tuesday’s game between the United States and New Zealand, the “Tall Blacks” performed the traditional Maori Haka. In case you did not know, the Haka is a traditional pre-war dance that has very deep meanings in New Zealand culture. It has become a sign of respect between opponents before they do battle and is […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
His rendition of the Gettysburg Address as Jon Gruden was pretty good too. [Michael Katz of SB Nation Look It]
Photo by Mark D. Smith-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/2/2014
This is going to be an odd year for Kobe Bryant. Everyone already seems to be writing his swan song, and Bryant, begrudgingly, sees the end of his career on the horizon. These final two years on his contract extension are likely his final years in the league. Bryant is not a player to fade […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
We had the Melo-Drama, the LeBron sweepstakes, the Dwight-mare and the Love Affair. Figuring out which superstar players are going to leave their current team and test the waters of free agency or force their way out of town in a trade is the newest game in the NBA. Players have all the power. It […]
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/1/2014
This was never a perfect edition of the U.S. Senior National Team. The superstars of the NBA opted to skip the trip to Spain and left the task of defending their World Championship to a group of young, unproven stars and a still-recovering Derrick Rose. There was a lot of 3-point shooting, not a lot […]
Photo by Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 8/30/2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Kk18Db1gg
Photo by Pat Lovell-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
You would be excused for djoing something of a double take. Stan Van Gundy happened to pick the one team that is most poised to remake the most successful team of his coaching career. Sure, there is still some cleaning up to do (thank you, job security of being president of basketball operations). Josh Smith, […]
Photo by Nelson Chenault-USA TODAY Sports
“If we were trying to get a sense for how stable three point percentage is after 100 attempts, a simple way to do it would be to randomly split the 100 shots into two samples of 50 and compare the percentage made in both samples. If it were stable, the percentage of makes in each sample should be similar. A better method would be to split the 100 shots into every permutation of two sample pairs of 50 and calculate the average correlation between the two pairs. This is what the Kuder-Richardson Formula 21 calculates. From here on I will refer to this number as the reliability. To find the point at which three-point shooting stabilizes we need to find out when the reliability crosses a certain threshold. A reliability of 0.7 seems to be the standard threshold used. After this point, the skill aspect will outweigh the noise.
“To gather a big enough sample of players with a sufficient number of attempts, I used the past seven season’s worth of three-point shooting data from NBA.com and I found that after roughly 750 attempts the reliability crosses the 0.7 threshold.”
—Darryl Blackport, Nylon Calculus
0 comments
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 8/29/2014
For more Team USA animations, visit ESPN.com.
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich
Vieja: no me recibí de médico, pero me hicieron una estatua en Buenos Aires! #TomáMate. http://t.co/s4BoygRXpm — Manu Ginobili (@manuginobili) August 29, 2014
Photo by Pat Lovell-USA TODAY Sports
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 8/28/2014
Not even the Minnesota Timberwolves could believe what they were seeing when third-year player Robbie Hummel posted on Instagram he was working on his rap album: “Excited to announce that I’ve been in the studio grinding and have finally finished my first hip hop studio album, ROB: Road to Redemption. Look for it in stores […]
