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0 comments by Jeff Garcia and Philip Rossman-Reich on 9/7/2014
What is up with NBA team owners? According to Yahoo! Sports, Hawks owner Bruce Levenson is set to sell the team after racist emails have emerged. Owner Bruce Levenson will sell the Atlanta Hawks after revelation of a 2012 racist email, NBA commissioner Adam Silver announces. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojYahooNBA)
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 […]
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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 Josh Burton on 9/3/2014
He may have turned 39 a few months ago and is coming off his worst shooting season in years, but Ray Allen is still one of the more sought-after free agents in the NBA, especially by the league’s best teams. Ray, after a bunch of seasons with the Bucks, SuperSonics, and five with the Celtics, […]
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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 […]
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Cleveland won the offseason by signing LeBron James, and acquiring Kevin Love which pretty much propels the Cavs to the top of the heap in the East. But if any fans in Cleveland want to see this new chapter in Cavs history this upcoming season, they’re going to have to dig a bit deeper in […]
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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 […]
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0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 8/30/2014
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, […]
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“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
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0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 8/28/2014
Divorces are always nasty, even when they are necessary. Kevin Love has been largely quiet even as everyone knew he wanted out of Minnesota or that his talent needed to escape the wasteland that has become the Timberwolves — no Playoff appearances in the last decade speaks for itself. It was time for both the […]
0 comments by Josh Burton on 8/27/2014
For what felt like years, Kevin Love — drafted with the fifth overall pick in the 2008 draft by the Timberwolves — made it clear that he wanted to finish his career outside of the Twin Cities. A California native, who grew up in Oregon but matriculated to play at UCLA, it was always the […]
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When you are a new NBA player there are a lot of things to be concerned about. Can you handle the travel and pressure of the top level of basketball? Can you handle . . . the basketball? That is a serious question. Do you know what an actual, Spalding, official game-issue basketball feels like? […]
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Bloguin’s own Project Spurs recently had a roundtable to discuss some of the bigger topics surrounding the NBA champs?
What about the hire and impact of Becky Hammon now an assistant coach? Will it be a distraction?
Boris Diaw Tiago Splitter and Aron Baynes are playing at the 2014 FIBA World Cup and should fans be worried about a possible injury?
The Spurs also have one roster spot left. What will they do with that open seat?
Check out Project Spurs as they break it all down for Spurs fans.
0 comments by Philip Rossman-Reich on 8/26/2014
You may not have noticed last year, but EA Sports’ NBA Live series did come back. Kyrie Irving was the cover athlete. It is OK if you did not notice. It was the first edition in NBA Live since the failed NBA Live 10 with Dwight Howard on the cover. The supposedly revolutionary NBA Elite […]
