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It's funny how the 'narrative' can drive the facts, rather than vise versa. In this case, most commenters I've seen have eventually come around to acknowledging Jokic, but some are still holding out for others. When and why did the NBA decide to announce a Final 3 -- Jokic, Embiid, Curry ? The vote...

PBP in some form has to go back to 87-88 at the least, since that's the first edition of the Sixers Media Guide with dunk data (unless they just counted dunks manually from watching games, as opposed to referring to the PBP). But yeah, would be amazing if the PBP for those three seasons is digitali...

it's the 30 regular season vs the 16 playoff.

I should crunch the 16 for the regular season.

Playoffs on top
Regular season on bottom

Could also be sampling with 16 of the 30 teams having much different qualities than the entire 30 teams. So maybe compare average of those 16 teams. But it would also reason those teams are better at limiting offensive efficiency than the other 14 teams. Obviously you have the Jazz strategy, playing...

Crow! always feels like Peter Pan movie when seeing your name/moniker. :) Yes, many times, albeit, I probably need to search again with more directed searches. I know I can't log into the latter anymore (http://www.apbr.org/forum/) -- perhaps is now defunct. I know a lot of the links on http://www.a...

I was wondering about what are some of the best books to cover the history of the NBA. Especially the 60s & 70s. So any recommendations are appreciated. A few authors I've found -- not that I've found all their books -- many seem hard to come buy and many I've bought, e.g. Basketball Stars of 19...

Pretty solid case. I need to revisit Win Shares. Looks like it's not based entirely on a team win total. https://www.basketball-reference.com/about/ws.html Win Shares It is somewhat interesting to me that at age 33, Nate's DWS (Chicago) was his 4th best DWS season. So 7 seasons worse prior with a mu...

Also curious, where Rick Barry would rank for many of you?

I realize his best years were in the 70s. But he did play (3 strong seasons) in the 60s. I've seen a lot of public lists having him from 21st to mid 40s.

Trying to stay on topic vs making this a "top X list" -- 4 of top 20 players all-time playing in the 60s. Yes. I'd also submit Elgin Baylor and Nate Thurmond for debate. Mike -- Great correction on Oscar, yes, not known as a good defender. I think many of his teams were very poor in Defens...

Yeah. "Bench" could probably be called "depth" of teams, regardless of who's in the game at opening tip. Havlicek, McHale, and others over the years clearly were in their top 3 players at times, yet, came off the bench. Lou Williams is definitely in that circle for the Clippers. ...

I apologize, I didn't really get into a "statistical likelihood" in my last answer. TL;DR you have to first figure out the factors that make a player a "top X player" and then assize how likely they are to have occurred. Then measure those things, quantifiably, within an era and ...

Freedom of movement, 3pt emphasis, no hand checking, allowance/very liberal interpretation of the "gather" process for euro steps and 2-3 steps in general, and now players can turn their wrists, pause, and still dribble mid dribble process. This allows for incredible control and sharp move...

Here I was stacking 45 lb plates on the bench bar... *opens link*

Oh...that kind of bench. Gotta be Clippers with the top two 6th man candidates: Lou Williams, Montrezl Harrell.

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