While the entire sports world continues to take in the reality of one of the three best players joining a team that broke the NBA’s win record last season, a portion of his first-hand essay via the Player’s Tribune could prove to be an insight into how professional athletes decide where to play throughout their […]
It may have not been the best kept secret, the announcement Monday of the 2016 U.S. Men’s Basketball Team for the Rio Games, but the folks at USA Basketball, along with their partners like Nike and the NBA, found a way to officially break the news and give every member of the team literally a […]
By Taylor Bloom – Email – Articles – Twitter – Sport Techie Facebook Put yourself in the position of an NBA coach. Imagine you can track every movement, play, and decision performed by every one of your players during a game and be able to statistically analyze the efficiency and inefficiency of every on-court action. You could have real time updates of Russell Westbrook’s field goal percentage after he takes five dribbles versus his field goal percentage after he takes two dribbles. Or you could have up to the minute measurements of how many miles Kevin Durant has run and what his average speed was half way through the third quarter. For the Oklahoma City Thunder and nine other NBA teams, this type of analysis and much more...
