Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The …
What is RJ Barrett’s Ceiling?
Many experts are saying that Zion Williamson is the best player on this year’s NBA draft. But there is a solid number of them which believe that those evaluations are not true. That in fact, the No.3 pick RJ Barrett is the guy who has the biggest potential. Barrett was picked by the New York Knicks. He was projected to …
The Undisputed Guide to Pro Basketball History
The people behind the blogging collective FreeDarko present the entire history of pro basketball, from the Celtics of Red Auerbach to LeBron and Kobe, with a taxonomy of every fight in NBA history and a feature called The Mustache Index.
A March to Madness
It’s the book in which America’s favorite sportswriter returns to the arena of his most successful bestseller, A Season on the Brink. It’s the book that takes us inside the intensely competitive Atlantic Coast Conference & paints a portrait of how college baskettball is coached & played at the highest level. It’s the book that takes us onto the courts, …
The Book of Basketball
Foreword by Malcolm Gladwell Newly updated with fresh takes on LeBron, Kobe, the Celtics & more* Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN.com’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill …
Thinking Basketball
Are top scorers really the most valuable players? Are games decided in the final few minutes? Does the team with the best player usually win? Thinking Basketball challenges a number of common beliefs about the game by taking a deep dive into the patterns and history of the NBA. Explore how certain myths arose while using our own cognition as …
Tips For NBA
The NBA is the apex of basketball across the world. As such, the NBA is among the most popular leagues in bookies like Betway. The league has turned many sports personalities into legends since 1946, and it offers punters great opportunities to make cash. However, it’s not easy to turn a profit without a proper strategy. Here are the top …
Download NBA 2019-2020 Schedule
UPDATES on 2019-2020 NBA SCHEDULE The 2019-20 NBA season will move back one week next year and begin October 22, per league sources. This means the playoffs will also begin a week later. The change is to prevent opening night from occurring too early moving forward each year. The FIBA World Cup was also a factor. — Kevin O'Connor (@KevinOConnorNBA) …
The Detailed Guide To NBA
NBA might not have the popularity of other leagues such as the NFL or the EPL, but it is one of the most significant associations in the world. There are millions of fans who wager on the league each season. However, to win big on platforms like Betway, you need to know the game well as that gives you the …
Sports Stars Who Went Broke
We love watching sports stars do their thing in the fields. But many of them have a different unappealing lifestyle behind the glass doors of fame. Many of them have lost a great deal of their fortune due to one reason or another. Some of these broke sports stars include: Bill Buckner Bill Buckner’s started having bad lucks when he …
LeBron, Inc.: The Making of a Billion-Dollar Athlete
From the New York Times bestselling author of Return of the King comes the story of LeBron James’s incredible transformation from basketball star to sports and business mogul. With eight straight trips to the NBA Finals, LeBron James has proven himself one of the greatest basketball players of all time. And like Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan before him, LeBron …
What the Absence of Kevin Durant Has Taught Us
When KD landed on his opponent’s foot awkwardly and, twisted his ankle, which resulted in a right ankle contusion, some might have thought that Warriors were the dark horses going into games vs Houston and OKC. Little did they know that, in the next two games, Golden State would end Houston’s nine-game winning streak and then, three days later, demolish …
Kobe Bryant: NBA Prophet or Clueless Pundit?
Kobe Bryant’s Mamba Mentality has seen him do everything after his retirement from the NBA. Bryant’s drive for excellence has led him to produce an Oscar-winning short film, write a book, and even multiply a $6M investment to $200M. Heck, he and his wife are even expecting a fourth daughter soon. From film producer, writer, businessman, and father. What else …
Is James Harden The Most Dominant Scorer Since Wilt Chamberlain?
After finishing the 2017-18 season as the NBA’s top regular season team and taking the Golden State Warriors to a 7th game in the 2018 Western Conference Finals, the Houston Rockets were considered among the Top 4 Contenders to win the NBA title this season. But after a combination of circumstances and events, the Rockets had a slow start to …
NBA Net Rating: 5 Players That Are Helping Their Teams in 2018
The NBA is all about analytics and the league as a whole has every reason to be. The league arguably has more talent now than ever and several franchises have opted to hoard it. Finding ways to compete at a high level still requires landing marquee players, but coaches and front offices also need to get a little creative. That …
SprawlBall
SprawlBall: A Visual Tour of the New Era of the NBA From the leading expert in the exploding field of basketball analytics, a stunning infographic decoding of the modern NBA: who shoots where, and how. The field of basketball analytics has leaped to overdrive thanks to Kirk Goldsberry, whose visual maps of players, teams, and positions have helped teams understand …
Top 4 Contenders for the 2018-2019 NBA Season
The 2018-2019 NBA season keeps inching closer and closer to tip-off. We have less than a month before all of our favorite stars hit the hardwood. The question looms: beyond Golden State, who are the top contenders this year? We are going to look at the top four teams according to the implied probability provided by sports betting outlets. Top …
The Extra 2%
How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First by Jonah Keri What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League …
2018-2019 NBA Schedule Rest Days Analysis
For each team, we take team schedules and tag the “game-day”s and “off-day”s. This way, we can analyze the rest days patterns. Let’s code: X as the game-day, and O, as the off-day.
Download NBA 2018-2019 Schedule
UPDATES on 2018-2019 NBA SCHEDULE The full NBA schedule has been released … CAN'T. WAIT. ? https://t.co/4ejRMoIKJ9 pic.twitter.com/QMWN9u1kPe — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 10, 2018 ???? Our #KiaTipOff18 schedule! pic.twitter.com/CZi86ue28Q — NBA (@NBA) August 8, 2018 NBA on Christmas Day should be ? (First reported by @nytimes, confirmed by ESPN.) pic.twitter.com/4XZyhX0Woj — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) August 8, 2018 NBA will release its …
The Capulator
Despite its ugly UI, this tool has team salary caps, player transactions and lots of useful front office stuff.
Basketball (and Other Things)
Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Michael Jordan is the acknowledged greatest basketball player of all-time, but what season was Michael Jordan the best version of Michael Jordan? Who’s in The Disrespectful Dunk Hall of Fame? What’s allowed and absolutely not allowed in a game of pickup basketball? BASKETBALL (AND OTHER THINGS) presents readers with …
Golden Days
Golden Days: West’s Lakers, Steph’s Warriors, and the California Dreamers Who Reinvented Basketball In Golden Days, acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum uses two teams—today’s Golden State Warriors and the L.A. Lakers of the early 1970s—to trace the dynamic history of the National Basketball Association, which for much of the last half-century has marched memorably through the state of California. Tying …