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The Factors That Influence NBA Home Court Advantage

Using Data To Predict The 2019–2020 NBA Most Improved Player

Just Some Notes on Defense and Movement

Teams with lots of movement and little defense tend to have faster, skinnier bigs…

Pushing The Pace of Change in Modern NBA Fandom — Challenging Masculine Hierarchies

Our Biggest Loser: How NBA Fans Establish Identities by Rooting for Losing

Modeling the Value of Future Draft Picks Based on Current Winning Percentages (a.k.a. Draft Pick Value Generator)

Does “The Hot Hand” exist for assists? (Or: Does LeBron have a hot hand for assists?)

Push The Pace’s 2018

Here are some things we learned this year:

Breaking Down Teams’ Offenses using Nylon Calculus’ 23 Offensive Player Roles

How Development Differs Across Positions, and a Picture of The League Today

Guards, Wings, And Bigs, Oh My! Evaluating Eras of Positional Dominance in the NBA And Figuring Out What And When The…

The Ultimate Basketball World Cup

Which state/country has produced the best current talent? (Hint: It is most certainly not Massachusetts.)

Part Two: Which NBA Conspiracy Theory is the Most Essential Conspiracy Theory?)

(Written as an extension to Shea Serrano’s “BAOT”)

Part One: The Anatomy of an NBA Conspiracy Theory

(in part 2: which NBA conspiracy theory is the most essential conspiracy theory?) (Written as an extension to Shea Serrano’s “BAOT”)

The ____est teams of the 2017–18 NBA Season

With the 2017–18 NBA season over and the Golden State Warriors once again crowned…

Push The Pace Draft Guide 2.0

Analyzing the top 30 prospects in the 2018 NBA Draft

What If Marcus Smart Could Shoot?

They thought it was only possible in 2K. (They were right.)

Push The Pace Draft Guide 2018

Analyzing the top 30 prospects in the 2018 NBA Draft

Note: While this looks the same as version 2.0, the changes were applied to both versions. This was initially going to be the page with 2.0, but PTP found for the…

Three May Keep A Secret: A Personal Review Of Bill Simmons’ “The Book of Basketball”

LeBron’s Options

According to The Ringer’s Kevin O’Connor, LeBron James has narrowed his options down to Cleveland, Houston, Philadelphia, and the…

I’m “off” for a bit. Here’s why. Also, some stats

I haven’t written an article in a while.

It’s not that I haven’t been working towards creating content — well, actually, I haven’t been. I mean, I was. You’ll see.

The 23 Things That Are Wrong With That StateFarm Commercial

And you thought the Anderson's were finessing us.

An NFL team of NBA players

With Super Bowl LII coming up, football hype is high. The reigning champion New England Patriots, led by Bill…

Do Revenge Games Exist?

By Dashiell and Spencer Nusbaum