Archives for October 2009

Quick Thoughts

October 10, 2009 by Harlan Schreiber 8 Comments

I know it's exciting that training camps are open and players are playing actual basketball but actual news is quite hard to come by. We'll have full NBA previews coming in the next few weeks but we thought we'd tide you over with a little bit of basketball talk. We often associate a particular position with a particular player (i.e. Magic Johnson at the point in the 1980s or Michael Jordan at shooting guard forever). We were wondering whether our mental associations comport with the stats. … [Read more...] about Quick Thoughts

Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part III

October 3, 2009 by Harlan Schreiber Leave a Comment

Phoenix Suns 7/13 Signed Channing Frye 7/20 Signed Steve Nash to a two-year contract extension 9/15 Waived Sasha Pavlovic As we mentioned in the Dallas comments last week, point guards tend not to age well. On the bright side, most of the ones who have aged well have done so in recent years, a good indicator for Nash. Indeed, despite all the talk of Nash's durability years ago, he hasn't missed more than 12 games in a season since 1999-00. The stat line has gone down a … [Read more...] about Transactions 7/10-9/22 Part III