Here we can see the career arc of Dirk, seen through points and plus minus. Through this broad view, we can see how his impact on the game has changed related to his age. His points continued to increase when he came into the league at 20 until he was 24. He maintained his peak…

Anthony Davis is having a great 2014-2015 campaign. However, he is generally considered to be on the outside looking in for the MVP race. Which is hard to believe, given the historic numbers he’s putting up in PER and Win Shares. This is because his team is currently not in the playoff picture. Anthony Davis…

Golden State Warriors Golden State is at the top of the league and are favorites to win the championship this summer. So much of the team’s success is built on Klay Thompson and Draymond Green who are currently one of the lower paid players on the team. It will be interesting to see what happens…

Once again, it’s amazing what Russell Westbrook is doing this season. We already did a discussion of MVP candidates this season, but I felt it was worth revisiting what Russell has been doing. He continues to put up monster numbers and create incredible highlights. I felt it would be worth showing what Westbrook is doing…

The Cleveland Cavaliers/LeBrons are one of the most interesting teams of the 2014 season. Everyone on the planet is well aware that LeBron is back in Cleveland (Thanks Nike!) for better or for worse. Between LeBron and Manziel, I think even Cleveland is tired of hearing about itself… The big three of LeBron, Love and…

In the past few weeks there have been several major moves that have really shook some serious title contenders in the NBA. We’ll take a look at each of those moves and how it affects the teams in question. Josh Smith Got Waived and Picked Up By the Rockets You know what, I’m just going…

Just read a great article from Grantland. The article discusses the strength of the Western Conference and how imbalanced the NBA is currently. Last year in the Western Conference the Phoenix Suns missed the playoffs with 48 wins, while the Toronto Raptors were the 3rd seed in the East with the same win total. There…

The big news in the NBA this week is the Mavericks pulled off another major trade. The Mavericks are receiving a four time all-star in return for Brandon Wright, Jae Crowder, and picks. This really helps the Mavericks contend this year in a brutal Western conference. It would be really tough for the Mavericks to…

Hey All, This post will be quick since life has been pretty busy. This will not be a post or a graphic that blows your mind, but I’m still building up the scripts to do the analysis in R. Once I have built up some code repositories the analysis turns will go quicker, and we…