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basketball
- Sam Hinkie's Resignation Letter
This resignation letter from former Philadephia 76ers GM Sam Hinkie is full of gems. Here are a couple. On contrarianism in a short-sighted league when you're always under the microscope: To develop truly contrarian v…
- Weekend Reading: NBA Bubble, Digital Homesteads, and Amateurs vs. Professionals
🏀 What I Learned Inside the NBA Bubble A good piece giving an inside look of what life is like for a journalist inside the bubble. I've missed most of the playoffs this year during this strange time for sports. It's…
- Success and Failure
I've been a subscriber to Ben Falk's excellent Cleaning the Glass blog for well over a year now. He's a former front office analyst for the Sixers and Blazers that started this site with deep analyses on all aspects o…
- Conference Finals
The conference finals are set — Golden State and Portland in the west, Milwaukee and Toronto in the east. A great couple of matchups both likely to go deep. At halftime right now in Oakland, Portland's keeping it clos…
- Weekend Reading: Human Leverage, Alan Kay, and Mapping the NBA
🏋🏽‍♀️ Finding the Point of Human Leverage Automation is penetrating every industry, but still heavily reliant on human behavior and feedback to make it effective. In this piece, Benedict Evans talks about identifyin…
- NBA Playoffs
This post is a bit late since the playoffs started last Sunday. This is the best time of year for sports where you’ve got the NBA in the postseason, MLB in full swing, Stanley Cup, PGA majors, and the final stretches…
- Adam Silver at the MIT Sloan Conference
A fantastic one-on-one conversation between NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Bill Simmons from the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference: Adam Silver is one of the most thoughtful, enthusiastic, and interesting guys i…
- NBA Season at the Halfway Point
We're right at the middle of the season, and this one's been an exciting one so far. A couple teams at the top expected, a few others blew up out of nowhere. The Bucks in the east, Nuggets in the west, PG carrying OKC…
- Weekend Reading: Exploring Zanzibar, Singapore of the Future, & Watching Basketball
🇹🇿 Exploring Zanzibar with Mapillary A fun travel post from the Mapillary team after FOSS4G in Dar es Salaam. A drive around Zanzibar collecting images for OpenStreetMap mapping. Also check out part 2 of the journey…
- Podcasts for the New NBA Season
The NBA season spun up a couple of weeks ago. With that, NBA Twitter and the NBA podcast scene is back in full force. Here are the feeds I try to keep up with: Ringer NBA Show NBA Desktop The Lowe Post The Woj Pod The…