Comprehensive history of the negotiations that led up to the modern NBA salary Cap and revenue sharing. Joshua Mendelsohn does and incredible job of infusing seemingly dry material with relevant history about the NBA , characters, NBPA, and relevant labor battle. Spotlights the accomplishments of people like Larry Fleisher and David Stern along with players to bring equitable conditions to the growing league in a time of uncertainty and unstable franchise ownership.

My Threads thread :

https://www.threads.net/@megalutou/post/Cx4kaPjOczV

Jon's Twitter thread:

https://x.com/catterj12/status/1708200023551599100?s=20

Kevin's Twitter thread:

https://x.com/RockmanDash12/status/1708727640524509441?s=20

What Game Designers, Economists, Ballet Choreographers, and Theoretical Astrophysicists Reveal About the Greatest Game on Earth

Super fun Journey through the history and major moves in the NBA through the lens of different experts.

my Threads thread :

https://www.threads.net/@megalutou/post/Cvy0sswOIP8

Deep dive into early Sacramento Kings History through the eyes of Jerry Reynolds through 2005 . Unique perspective from one of the longest tenured Kings employees who served as assistant coach, head coach, scout, GM, Monarchs GM, and color commentator. Essential reading for any hardcore Kings fan.

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Threads thread:

https://www.threads.net/t/Cudgi6qLE6y/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

2013 extrapolation of the impact and abilities of SportVU technology on modern basketball analytics especially on the eve of the 3 point revolution. Covers concepts like floor spacing, versatility, efficiency, shot selection, and player evaluation using the new technology and stats available with SportVU.

My Twitter Thread :

https://twitter.com/megalutou/status/1662971209942974464?s=20

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Our discussion on Part 2 of David Halberstram's masterpiece that documents embedding with the 1979 Portland Trailblazers. Extremely far reaching and surprisingly relevant narrative that discusses everything from the marketing and television contracts of the league, formation of the players union, to every role on the team that year and beyond.

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Comprehensive overview of a rapidly growing and changing NBA through the lens of a declining Portland Trailblazers team and market. Halberstram uses the rookie season of Magic and Bird ( 1979-1980) to tell the personal stories of the blazers, their opponents, the market, athlete activism, racial integration, commercialization and commodification of the product of Basketball. Masterfully and beautifully written it presents an epic story of sport on multiple levels. Part 2 next month !

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Examination of our ability to process complex information and categorize it sometimes erroneously.    Ben examines biases and narratives associated with the way basketball is perceived and discussed.    Uses stats and historical data to demonstrate ways that we are prone to over and under value the complexity of the product on the court , extended analytics and team building.    Examines and advances concepts like variance, winning bias, redundancy,  portability and things like global impact .    

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The definitive "history" of the ABA .

Epic journey through the teams, players and events of a somewhat ill conceived or at least under concieved attempt to compete with the NBA,     The ABA may have lost the battle but in terms of playstyle and league showmanship they won the war.    

My twitter thread :  https://twitter.com/megalutou/status/1619782294151258112?s=20&t=i8m0FTvRQNSA7BsJSw_vvA

A journey through basketball to the 3 point revolution, pace and space and what happens in that space.   

twitter thread with google doc 

https://twitter.com/megalutou/status/1597027388340129792?s=20&t=Yb2CNwrgHoAJ_b5ZS6TxiA

entertaining journey through the actively tanking and just bad teams in NBA during the Sam Hinkie "process" years.   

My Thread: https://twitter.com/megalutou/status/1585313128815861760?s=20&t=A_oOlXn76-Vtv7hei8rkyQ

Jon's Thread:  https://twitter.com/catterj12/status/1585350011381915648?s=20&t=A_oOlXn76-Vtv7hei8rkyQ