Game changers: how a stroke of paint transformed basketball, and the athletes who play it

When basketball was invented by medical doctor James Naismith in 1891 – to keep American football players active during ...
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Basketball analytics corrected decades of bad intuition. Then it created new blind spots

Don Nelson is one of the winningest coaches in NBA history. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Ronald Martinez / Allsport / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The Athletic’s desk ...