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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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It seems Clippers’ Matt Barnes and DeAndre Jordan had some fun this past Labor Day when they attended a party dressed up as Prince and Jimmy Hendrix. DeAndre just nailed the Hendrix look. Seriously he looks just like the great rock star. Barnes, well, sort of, kind of looks like Prince. Welcome to the NBA […]
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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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The “Golden Age” of Argentina basketball may be over but that is not stopping other teams at the 2014 FIBA World Cup from giving them any slack. Take the Philippine’s Gabe Norwood who had no mercy for Luis Scola during a recent game. While on the fast break, Norwood had a clear path to the rim with only […]
0 comments by Jeff Garcia on 8/31/2014
I thought the whole point of international competition was to foster friendship, and let sports bring people together. Maybe this player from Team Philippines forget to read the memo. During a match between Greece and the Philippines, L.A. Tenorio hit Greek player Kostas Papanikolaou right in the family jewels. Keep it classy Tenorio! (h/t SBN)
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James Harden is not known for defense. No for real, his defense is absolutely, positively, horrific! And now that he is playing with Team USA, Harden gets to show the entire world that he has no clue what defense means. Seriously, someone give him a lesson on defense. Check it out!
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0 comments by Jeff Garcia on 8/30/2014
In case you didn’t know, the 2014 FIBA World Cup is off and running in Spain where the top teams in the world will compete for gold and a shot at the 2016 Rio games. World power teams like the U.S., Spain, Argentina, Greece, France, Slovenia and many more are hooping it up but it […]
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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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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
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0 comments by Jeff Garcia on 8/28/2014
As a lawyer by day, I know first-hand the stress of entering the courtroom daily and facing tough judges, tough opposing counsel and dealing with the unknown. Of course the same could be said about playing on an NBA court where a player has to deal with tough refs, tough defenses and dealing with the […]
