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Thread of 2025 NBA Draft Models

@BrandonBeck4 @NoPantsCrunch

NBA teams were 0-180 when down by 10 or more points in overtime over the last 29 seasons. They are now 1-180. Wolves came back from down 13 in overtime, the largest OT comeback win in the play-by-play era.

Timberwolves are the first team since play by play data came about to overcome a 13 point overtime deficit

Rudy!

Chad Gallagher erasure

@TimGarrisonMN Font feels like a big risk. I hope the MINN logo isn't an indication of where the font is headed

I really like the rebrand because of what the style, colors, and inclusion of trees suggests the direction they are going with the jerseys. If the rotation is something like the 2021-22 city jersey with a white and black color way, it’s going to hit in a major way and that logo is going to compliment it beautifully.

MINN alt logo is trash wolves. I hope this is a soft launch and you can fix it.

@mdw3344 @ShadowStarMode @SharkLarkPlays I liked them, but the MINN abrevestion was the worst feature of the jersey

@ShadowStarMode @SharkLarkPlays No, they didn’t.

There is a non zero chance the NBA store leaked the new logos already (couple weeks ago)

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@advancedstats23 @VolsAndDraft @sunstwt520 @ItsInfernoo @Andrew_Dangerjr @petey2trey23 Didnt end up with the time this year, but interested again next year!

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@tommyprazole Congrats! Grateful you put the time in for us once again. Love the table and your analysis.

i value dominance + youth as a powerful star indicator, so here are the 13 u21 prospects in the 2026 draft class that i've charted with either an offensive or defensive grade in the 90th percentile or higher (sorted by ovr. grade) 8 of my 14 lotto players featured here:

.@JohnWall showing elite college basketball knowledge 🧠

Beeswarm plot to illustrate the hilarity of Bam's 83 points.

While we're getting weird with it here are the top outlier high scores in NBA history based on that player's average and SD. Normality be damned, we're having some fun here. Mario West!!!

I was the lead investigative reporter for our coverage on NBC Nightly News on 9-11. Did first story on Bin Laden in January 1997. I understood that it was a group of radicals not the Muslim faith who attacked that day. Walked right into that one, didn’t you?

Bam Adebayo broke math. His 83-point game was 8.5 standard deviations above his career average (or ~1 in 53 quadrillion) Based on career avgs, its like: Patrick Mahomes passing for 915 yards Justin Verlander throwing 214 pitches in a start Wilt Chamberlain grabbing 79 rebounds

@kmedved how are these synergies calculated? Can you add a metric glossary as a nice to have site improvement?

High possession lineups sorted by worst Offensive Synergy. beta.darko.app/lineups