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Lev Akabas

@LevAkabas

NBA 🏀 & sports business 💵 data viz 📊 for @Sportico All opinions are my own

Manhattan, NY Katılım Ekim 2012
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The Miami Heat get their next superstar in Giannis Antetokounmpo, one of the most efficient high-volume scorers in the NBA last year even in an injury-riddled season
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Which countries have had the best local time viewing windows for FIFA World Cup games? 5 countries have had all three group stage games in primetime: Bosnia & Herzegovina, Colombia, Haiti, Switzerland, and Uruguay 2 countries have had all three at night: Algeria and Tunisia
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However, it is quite rare for head coaches to make the jump directly from college to the NBA The only other guy to do so in the past 10 years was John Beilein (2019), which did not work out well
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The Dallas Mavericks' hiring of Dusty May as their head coach continues a trend of NBA teams hiring way fewer former NBA players to be head coaches
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Which countries' FIFA World Cup rosters have the highest % of players who play for clubs in their country's domestic league? Saudi Arabia and Qatar lead at 96%... Then England at 81% What else jumps out to you?
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After the New York Knicks went down 2-1 to the Atlanta Hawks in the first round, they had 2% odds to win the title The Oklahoma City Thunder had 53% odds at that time
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Millions are expected at the New York Knicks championship parade today, but there's a lot less paper thrown at ticker-tape parades than there used to be For the Liberty parade in 2024, the NYC sanitation department cleaned up about 20 tons of waste
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The NBA is back?
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Cape Verde's goalie Vozinha had 32K Instagram followers two weeks ago He now has 11.9 million, more than Luka Doncic, Shohei Ohtani, and FIFA itself
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Jonathan Macri@JCMacriNBA·
Curious where people are at on this... After the OG tip in, what play from a Knicks player during this playoff run will stick with you the most? If none of the below, respond in the comments with your choice.
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The 2026 Knicks are a rare NBA champion without an MVP or former MVP on the roster
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@bakedhaddock For championship odds, they would still have needed to win Game 7 and then they'd have had to win another series against the Nuggets
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@LevAkabas I don’t understand how Derrick whites isn’t higher? It was a buzzer then Boston was then favorited at home no? I would question the math there
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Justin Birnbaum@JustBirny·
Just days after the Knicks incredible championship run, Skechers president Michael Greenberg announced that a signature shoe is in the works for OG Anunoby. Not all too surprising. OG is in the process of trademarking a personal logo. More at @Sportico: sportico.com/business/comme…
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@inpredict You have sent me down a huge rabbit hole from which I will emerge soon with a good list
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What shots from the pre-play by play era (1996 and prior) could make the top ten? Magic’s sky hook in the Garden? Jerry West 60 foot heave? Game tying shot to force another OT in Suns-Celtics?
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Here's an alternative look at the biggest shots in modern NBA history, this time sorted by change in title probability (rather than KL divergence). Some my think this is a better list - we get Jordan twice here. But Ray Allen's shot gets downgraded.

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@novy_williams There have only been five Game 7s since 1997 and none had a made shot in the last 20 seconds I guess a shot in the last 10 seconds is so much bigger of a probability swing for that game than a shot with like 30 seconds left
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