Posted by These are links to everything I’ve written about basketball.
For FiveThirtyEight:
NBA Teams Are Resting Players Earlier And Earlier
How The Milwaukee Bucks Brought Their Offense Into The 21st Century
For The Athletic – Bay Area:
Explaining Stephen Curry’s extra trips to the free-throw line
The Warriors have revolutionized small ball, but are they really small?
How will Nick Young do with the Warriors?
For The Step Back:
My Personal NBA Top 50: How to Build the Best
The NBA Before-and-After Name Game
The Influential Curses and Blessings of the BasedGod
Joel Embiid’s Mask Is The First Of Its Kind
Modern Moves: Rajon Rondo’s Behind-the-Back Fake
A History of NBA All-Star Game Fashion
Bill and Ted’s excellent NBA MVP adventure
The Tenochtitlan Triple-Double
A complete history of jumping over things in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest
The Golden State Warriors had the best third quarter of the season
What does it take to become an NBA All-Star?
Rudy Gobert And The All-NBA Body Parts Team
Why Charles Barkley Hates Jump-Shooting Teams
The 10 greatest mustaches in NBA history
Seven-Feet High And Rising: What’s Next For KAT?
How Free Agency Changed NBA Team Building
For Nylon Calculus:
Regression to the mean can even fool NBA coaches
Basketball’s optimal stopping problem
Reviewing the NBA trade deadline with an eye on recent trends
More lessons from NBA rebound tracking
More fun with NBA passing charts
Introducing triple-threat charts
Predicting injury recovery for Klay and Durant
Grouping players by offensive role, again
Did lottery reform actually curb tanking?
Tossing a wet blanket on the hot hand
Could the Warriors score 200 points in a game?
When does it pay to stagger your stars’ minutes?
A Thanksgiving meal for every NBA team
Defining 23 offensive roles using the NBA’s play-type data
What if each conference had its own MVP?
Why Aren’t You Using PBPstats.com?
When Can We Start Calling Somebody a ‘Future Hall of Famer’?
Color-mixing and Lineup Synergies
Did the Warriors Really Ruin the NBA?
Steve Kerr Coaches Like a Role Player
Looking for an NBA Defensive Player of the Year
The Evolution of Stephen Curry
In Pursuit of the Divine Stat Line
A Thanksgiving Meal to Represent Every NBA Team
Harrison Barnes is an Iso Threat
Balancing the value of volume scoring with efficiency
Ranking the best and worst scorers in every offensive role
In search of the ideal talent distribution for an NBA roster
Charting the first week of NBA Free Agency
Remembering the first Superteam in NBA history
LeBron, Curry, and the mentality of missing
The Warriors might be the most volatile team ever
Andre Iguodala is a throwback Sixth Man of the Year candidate
Golden State’s offense before and after All-Star Weekend
Tracking the imbalance between conferences
Stephen Curry, a case study in visualizing plus-minus
Warriors’ new defense is different, but still very good
Visualizing lineup rotations for the Golden State Warriors
Kevin Durant’s shooting has gone from good to great
The Golden State Warriors are heating up
Was Yao Ming’s career unusually short for a Hall of Fame inductee?
What if Michael Jordan had joined a super-team instead of the Wizards?
Russell Westbrook is fixin’ to win the MVP
Does Durant make the Warriors a better shooting team?
Harrison Barnes is getting paid
A visual history of Game 7 results for the best teams in NBA history
Patterns in All-NBA Team voting
The Warriors are a cresting wave
Marreese Speights: Newest member of The Splash Family Tree
Why last year’s Golden State Warriors are the best analog for the 1995-96 Chicago Bulls
Stephen Curry, the Most Improved, Most Valuable Player in NBA History?
For Nightingale: The Journal of the Data Visualization Society:
Injuries and rest in basketball
For Vice Sports:
We Did the Math: Not Even Alien Invasions Will Keep Golden State from 60 Wins
Is This the Worst USA Basketball Team of the NBA’s Olympic Era?
The Warriors Have Been Lucky with Injuries
How Close did the Warriors get to the Best NBA Season Ever?
For NBA.com:
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolves?
For Hardwood Paroxysm:
Ghostwriting E-40’s next Warriors verse
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