How Analytics Changed Basketball Strategy Forever
If you watched an NBA game in 2005 and then watched one today, you’d barely recognize the sport. The rules haven’t changed much. The court is the same size. The basket is still ten feet high. But the way teams play — where they shoot from, how they space the floor, which players they value — has been completely transformed by data analytics. This isn’t just a story about numbers replacing instinct. It’s about how a mathematical insight reshaped a billion-dollar sport from the ground up, changing everything from how coaches draw up plays to how general managers build rosters worth hundreds of millions of dollars. ...