There is concern among many coaches and front office people that analytics are taking on too large a role in the NBA, with a number of those who spoke to Heavy Sports hoping the numbers remain a ...

The hunt for 2025 NBA Defensive Player of the Year award appeared to be a one-man race for much of the season, with San Antonio's Victor Wembanyama racking up impressive defensive stats. The Spurs ...

In an era where sports franchises globally are leaning heavily into analytics, Chelsea’s recent appointment of Sachin Gupta marks a significant stride in their strategic evolution. As detailed by The ...

Darryn Peterson, AJ Dybantsa, Cam Boozer, Caleb Wilson, Kingston Flemings, Keaton Wagler, and more. This historic freshman class is earning most of the headlines, and for good reason. However, the ...

It seems unlikely ESPN’s NBA analytics formula has ever watched basketball before. While it is certainly surprising that the Heat are beating the Celtics so summarily that Magic Johnson is flat-out ...

If you filled out a March Madness bracket this month, you probably faced the same question with each college match-up: What gives one team an edge over another? Is it a team's record through the ...

Mike Zarren has every reason to extol the virtues of basketball analytics, having accelerated his way up the Boston Celtics‘ organizational chart in part because of his expertise in that area. But ...

Bob Costas is a traditionalist. The legendary broadcaster has previously advocated for MLB to address its pace of play issues; and now, he’s setting his sights on the NBA. In a recent appearance on ...

The discussion around “analytics” in sports often comes with a lot of criticism for those numbers. That criticism is perhaps stronger still when the numbers in question come from a network ...

As the NBA season heats up, so does some interesting trade secret litigation among NBA teams. On Aug. 21, 2023, New York Knicks LLC sued a former Knicks employee named Ikechukwu Azotam and Maple Leaf ...