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HoopIdea has a lot of roles. One is to attempt, as best we can, knowing darned well we'll fail constantly, to acknowledge, curate and promote the many great ideas made public before we got started. And when it comes to re-imagining the NBA, Bil...

The executive director of the Players Association, Billy Hunter, is on the B.S. Report today with Bill Simmons. He said that as soon as his players said they wanted to compromise, he would get them a deal. But at the moment the rhetoric sounds nothin...

TrueHoop reader David created a chart of the two sides' collective bargaining offers to date. The other day, on Bill Simmons' podcast, NBA Commissioner David Stern wondered why the players had scoffed at the owners' offer to cut player salaries just...

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For the next couple of days, TrueHoop will be a hive of geeky activity. Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Cuban, Bill Simmons, Jeff Van Gundy, Daryl Morey, R.C. Buford, Wyc Grousbeck and Joe Lacob are just a few of those who will be speaking at the fourth ann...

Justin Bieber took the court in the All-Star celebrity game, and he was not the best player on the court -- he missed eight of his eleven shots, had some frustration fouls and was a liability on defense. He wasn't the biggest, either. But thanks to f...

The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference will be in Boston March 4 and 5 this year (and they're boasting speakers like Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Cuban, Bill Simmons and Jeff Van Gundy). But the deadline to submit papers to the conference is in the n...

The TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackdown is four years old, which means it's following roughly the same timeline as Daryl Morey's MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. If Sloan is the Lollapalooza of hoops dorks (or, per Bill Simmons, Dorkapalooza) then the...

Brent Barry has been thinking about statistics. "Statistics," he says, "are like bikinis. They're really nice to look at but they don't tell you the whole story." Barry attended the recent MIT Sloan Sports Conference with an NBA camera crew, an...

Saturday marks the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, which is also commonly referred to as (thank you, Bill Simmons) Dorkapalooza. This conference, now in its fourth year, is a funny thing. On the one hand, it's a curio. Most of the NBA ...

Bill Simmons, on All-Star Weekend in Dallas: We're standing with a young player who wants the night to keep going. The young player pushes to find another bar even though the odds are against it. Uncle Wes makes a face. He's squashing this right now...

By Henry Abbott On his podcast, Bill Simmons once interviewed NBA Commissioner David Stern, and they had this exchange: Who's your favorite owner? The guy that you point to and say, "That's how you run a team." I actually have three favorites: B...

Marc Stein and Bill Simmons are among those mentioning the Spurs as title favorites this year. Tim Varner of 48 Minutes of Hell watches the Spurs closely, and has his worries. One, for instance: "It's frequently said that the Spurs' syst...

Perhaps you have already read the super long and interesting e-mail exchange between Malcolm Gladwell and Bill Simmons (complete with Gladwell's tale of blowing off Jennifer Aniston in a Miami coffee shop). In Part 2, Gladwell suggests that the l...

He only had half of the elite eight, but Spartan Boy came back strong to win the TrueHoop Group of the ESPN Tournament Challenge. The same bracket had him tied for 158th in Bill Simmons' group. Which officially makes the TrueHoop group more user-...

Bill Simmons has just written about all the people who tell him he must hate Kobe Bryant. It has oddly echoed my day. A little back story. A few days ago, I was watching some random NBA game, and thanks to poor Tivo strategy was actually watching hal...