Bobcats roll into town sporting a shiny one game winning streak after having lost six straight, dropping them all the way to 27-38. Sadly, that mark has them in the playoff hunt, sitting ninth in the East, losing the tiebreaker at the moment to the Pacers for the eighth seed. So yes, the Bobcats need…
Sources say Silvestri, who took a seat on the board last year, has emerged as an atypically opinionated presence around the Air Canada Centre. Along with criticizing Colangelo’s record as GM, Silvestri, one league source said, has also been heard to deride Colangelo’s career as the product of nepotism.
You ever been to Copacabana? There’s a couple of locations in Toronto, one nicely situated in Niagara Falls right by the casino. A lot of you probably knew this, but they serve a buffet in the evening, which my party was unaware of. Perhaps if we had known it was $40 a pop it would…
Knicks vs Hicks was the old Indiana/New York rivalry's billing, hence the title.
I've always been skeptical about the NBA's way of crediting players with rebounds.
The heartbreak that accompanies controversial buzzer-beating losses was mysteriously missing after Al Jefferston's game-high sixth offensive rebound scored the tie-breaking points to send the Raptors to their third straight loss, and more importantly a tie in the loss column with the Wizards for the league's fourth-worst record.
The Big Board isn't rocket science by any means. In fact, it's dead simple.
The myth of the hot hand While this study was presented at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference two years ago, I reviewed it again during this year’s conference and thought it was worth reviewing here. Sandy Weill (who presented the “Optical Tracking” session that I reviewed yesterday), along with John Huizinga (University of Chicago Professor…
Dorkapalooza Edition We had the opportunity to attend M.I.T.’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this year. The conference offered sessions for a wide range of sports, but we focused our attention on the basketball-related sessions. After 11 sessions over 10 hours (1 1/2 days), we attempted to summarize the highlights below. We have sectioned this post…