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Load Management Rules Meet Their First Full Season
Restrictions on resting healthy players have completed a full campaign. The data suggests availability improved, and the arguments have moved elsewhere.
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Why the Mid-Range Jumper Is Making a Comeback
The analytics movement declared the mid-range shot inefficient and nearly killed it. Now the game's smartest offences are bringing it back — for reasons the spreadsheets missed the first time.
BasketballNews
In-Season Tournaments Spread to New Competitions
Mid-season knockout events designed to add stakes to otherwise routine fixtures are being adopted more widely, with mixed evidence on whether they work.
BasketballBlog
In Defence of the Boring Team
Every sport has a side that wins without entertaining, and every sport treats them as a problem to be solved. Maybe the problem is with how we've decided to watch.
BasketballNews
Salary Cap Negotiations Stall Over Revenue Definitions
Talks between leagues and player associations have slowed, with the dispute centring on which revenue streams count toward the shared pool.
BasketballBlog
What I Got Wrong About Tanking
I spent years arguing that deliberate losing was rational and that critics were being sentimental. I have changed my mind, and not for the reasons I expected.
BasketballArticle
The Art of the Switch: Basketball's Defensive Chess Match
Switching every screen looks like the simplest defensive scheme in basketball. In reality it is the most demanding — a system that trades size and position for speed and communication.
BasketballArticle
Rebounding Is a Team Decision, Not a Personal Statistic
Individual rebound totals are one of basketball's most misleading numbers. We look at how possession of the glass is actually won, and why the best rebounding teams are not always the ones with the best rebounders.