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The Long View 7-25-14

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NBA Articles New and Old to pass the time during the off season .

1) -Welcome to Nylon Calculus - A series of analytic articles on Todays NBA

First, a message from Matt Moore, Editor Emeritus of Hardwood Paroxysm and the HPBasketball Network.

I love stats. Metrics. Data. I’m not an expert, though, which is why throughout the history of Hardwood Paroxysm I’ve reached out to the brightest minds who do understand the fascinating world of advanced analytics. Before I started the blog, I used to lurk in the APBR Metrics board, seeing all the ideas and analysis and debates flow back and forth. It was fascinating, and in my writing I’ve always tried to be open to the newer, fresher ways of looking at the numbers the game produces

2) The Great Huestis Experiment - Zach Lowe Grantland

The main benefit of being a first-round pick is avoidance of that uncertainty. First-round picks are guaranteed two years of full NBA paychecks, unless their team renounces their draft rights, which essentially never happens. Huestis could guarantee himself $1.5 million today by signing a contract the Thunder had to place in front of him earlier this month by league rule.

3) The Englishman Who Went Up the Internet But Came Down an NBA Contracts Expert - JASON CONCEPCION GL

The thing that interests me about Mark Deeks is that he even exists.

Imagine spending a dozen hours or more a day researching and watching the NBA in a country where the games come on at midnight and end at 7 a.m. and basketball is so disregarded that your home country cut the funding for its Olympic team. That should give you an idea of how unusual Deeks’s rise to prominence is.

4) We Are Grown Men Playing A Child's Game - SI 1963

The bearded man laughing at his daughter is Bill Russell, the most remarkable basketball player of our time. Sport, however, is one of his lesser interests. Here are his trenchant, often angry observations on today's Negro-white crisis and his role in it

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