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Playoff Adjustment: How NBA Round 1 Reveals Regular-Season Mirages
A team that posts a +6 net rating across an 82-game regular season looks, on the page, like a contender.…
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Basketball analytics, advanced stats, lineup data, and the work of reading the modern NBA. True shooting, on/off splits, the all-in-ones — used the way analysts who watch the games actually use them.
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The Hot-Hand Fallacy: Forty Years of Argument, Then a Quiet Reversal
The hot-hand fallacy — what the original research claimed, what the corrected research shows, where the question still has uncertainty, and how to write...
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Playoff Scaling: Which Regular-Season NBA Numbers Survive May
Playoff scaling — which regular-season numbers survive May, which collapse, and how to read postseason performance through structural translation rather than narrative inflation.
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All-Star Voting and What Analytics Actually Wants From Player Evaluation
Every February, NBA All-Star voting produces a familiar two-act argument. Act one is the fan vote, which rewards popularity, market…
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NBA Christmas Day 2025: What the Five Marquee Games Actually Project
Knicks-Bucks, Spurs-Knicks (Wemby), Lakers-Heat (LeBron), Nuggets-76ers, Mavs-Warriors prime-time. Two close games, three blowouts is the historical pattern.
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OKC Thunder’s 2025 NBA Title: How the Underlying Numbers Were Right All Along
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander walked off the Paycom Center floor with the Bill Russell trophy in his hands at 11:47 PM local…
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Nine Pacers Bench Players Beat Three Stars (Mostly)
Indiana built the deepest playoff rotation in twenty years. It got them to Game 7 vs OKC and stopped there. The depth model, audited.
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OKC 114-88 Minnesota: The Conference Finals That Was Over by Q1
OKC scored 38 in the first quarter, held Edwards to 18 points, won 114-88. The structural defense that survived the regular season survived May.
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NBA Play-In Tournament 2025: What the Format Actually Selects For
Heat became the first 10-seed ever to advance. The Play-In format does not select for the best teams. It selects for streakiness and closing...
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NBA Trade Deadline 47 Days Later: What the Movers Actually Got
Luka Doncic to Lakers, Davis to Mavericks, Butler to Warriors, Fox to Spurs. The net rating impact 47 days later. The Lakers won. The...