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The Indiana Fever are hiring Sheri Sam as assistant general manager, focusing on scouting and analytics, sources told IndyStar on Friday afternoon. She will begin her role Monday. There is still no specific timeline for the Fever to hire a general manager. Sam is coming to the Fever from the Portland Trail Blazers, where she was the scouting manager focusing on player evaluation and pre-draft scouting.
NBA Stat: Jayson Tatum just hit another game-winner. Since 1996-97, no other player has a higher FG% on shots to tie or take the lead in the final 24 seconds of a game. (min 60 FGA) (via ItsGeorgeyy) #NBA
Jayson Tatum just hit another game-winner. Since 1996-97, no other player has a higher FG% on shots to tie or take the lead in the final 24 seconds of a game. (min 60 FGA) (via ItsGeorgeyy) #NBA
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NBABase: Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo currently have a -31.6 net rating in 71 minutes together on the floor. The Heat are 0–4. Yikes.
The Charlotte Hornets announced today that the team has finalized its basketball operations staff heading into the 2026-7 season. The team has added John Bryant as Assistant Coach, Jordan Sears as Assistant Coach and Director of Player Development, Shawn Occeus as Video and Player Development Assistant, Callie Prindiville as Executive Assistant to the Head Coach, Ellie Girsch as Basketball Operations Strategic Assistant, Nate Babcock as Pro Scout, Jake Flynn as Software Engineer, Lucca Ferraz as Data Scientist and Krishna Narsu as Analytics Researcher. In addition, Rory Lavery and Kaden Hersel were both added as Performance Physical Therapists and Assistant Athletic Trainers.
Though Brown wasn’t specifically mentioned Tuesday, Stevens — a noted “numbers guy” — even discussed his mind-set on analytics, which many speculated became a factor into the decision to move the five-time All-Star. “Data is an important part of learning about what you’re capable of, and learning about your team, but it is a part of it. Not all of it,” Stevens said. “I do think that there’s a lot of room for eyes, feel, preparing for curveballs so you’re ready for that in any scenario.”
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Basketball University: 2012-14 LeBron James had the largest positive rim FG% differential from league average of any qualifying player from any three year span in the play-by-play era (1997+) +15.8% on the 4th highest volume of rim FGA with the vast majority self-created off the bounce. Unfathomable.
They’ve done all of that while also being one of the most physical teams in the NBA and utilizing more versatile schemes than just about anyone in the league. Per a league source with Second Spectrum access, Miami switched on 38 percent of the pick-and-rolls they defended last season, which ranked third behind the Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Lakers. Additionally, the Heat were top five in switch frequency in the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons. Spoelstra also has been one of the league’s most prominent adopters of zone defense strategies.
Tommy Beer: Most points in the clutch in the playoffs over the past three years combined: 1. Jalen Brunson: 143 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 84 3. Tyrese Haliburton: 48 4. Anthony Edwards: 43 5. Nikola Jokic: 36 6. Cade Cunningham: 35
NBA Stat: Worst clutch 3PT% in the 2025-26 NBA Regular Season (min. 15 clutch 3PA): 1. Cade Cunningham — 6.7% 2. Paolo Banchero — 10.5% 3. PJ Washington — 11.1% 4. Michael Porter Jr. — 16.0% 5. Russell Westbrook — 18.8% (via Clutch Numbers) #NBA
Ray Allen: 'What's happened is we've lost the mid-range game and I hear coaches yelling no mid-range shots. And then we've lost post-up players. Bigs don't even have a place in the game anymore. That to me is the tragedy because now what we do is we have these guys that work in basketball offices that are analytic guys that sit here and say why we need to shoot more threes than twos. And they just they convince the upper management and everybody else that guys that never played the game, you should be shooting more threes than twos. And I just think, and here's the thing, here's the proof. Okay, so Golden State won, they shoot a lot of threes and Boston won and they shot a lot of threes and they lost because they shot a lot of threes as well. But this past year, look at Oklahoma City and Indiana. Both had guys that could shoot threes because you need three-point shooters out there and you set the game up, but they were killing on pick and roll in the mid-range. Yes. So when I came in the game, you had some incredible pick and roll players. You had some incredible mid-range guys. It was it was insane. You could learn so much from these these dudes and the game is just we've lost that. And that's an art.'
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Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, in attendance for the 2026 ESPY Awards at Lincoln Center on Wednesday night, took a swipe at one of the team’s playoff foes as New York looked to take home the Best Team award. “You can pick up all the analytics and statistics you want,” Towns said during a pre-show interview Wednesday with ESPN’s Kevin Negandhi and Christine Williamson. “Analytically, we should win this one. We should win this one analytically.”
"The league is overrun with strategy," an Eastern Conference scout said. "Honestly, I'm not sure how many people who work in the league are actually watching the games." "Yes, there are more graduate degrees in front offices now, but that's only part of the picture," a Western Conference general manager said. "The aprons force you to analyze all of your spending more and put more attention to detail on getting the most out of each salary slot. The owners put that into the rules, and the players accepted it. This is all a choice."
