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He's the Indiana University professor who got young Mark Cuban interested in advanced analytics, a pioneer of adjusted plus/minus, and a man who says some coaching moves in these playoffs have been flat wrong....

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Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images Play a ton of minutes in the regular season, like Stephen Curry, and injuries are common. A while back I found that players who play a ton of minutes don't win NBA titles anymore. It used to happen all the ti...

Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images Hard intentional fouls have helped to make Chris Andersen one of the NBA's most effective players. On the first play of Wednesday night's Game 2, Nate Robinson used basketball skills to get himself a nice look at the bucke...

David Thorpe has been ranking playoff MVPs (Insider). We discuss:...

Me? I picked Heat in seven. But ESPN.com insiders Amin Elhassan and Tom Haberstroh have seen enough. Forget the homecourt advantage the Bulls have eked out. They're saying Heat in five....

Marc Stein and David Thorpe on coach of the year, coach of the playoffs, coaches on the hot seat, coaches doing smart things and coaches doing dumb things....

Kelley L Cox/USA TODAY SportsGeorge Karl won coach of the year, but ESPN Forecast's panel says Gregg Popovich is better.The NBA sent around the most interesting list: George Karl 404 Erik Spoelstra 190 Mike Woodson 127 Gregg Popovich 120 ...

Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty ImagesLeBron James and the Heat must find the energy to outhustle Joakim Noah's Bulls. Write it down. Things got incredibly real in the 2013 NBA playoffs on May 6. If you weren't feeling it after Saturday's Bulls-Nets ...

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Michael Jordan was one of the first NBA players ever to have his own trainer, and Tim Grover was his guy. Grover's access to Jordan has long been as good as anybody's, and now the trainer to Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade and others has just rel...

Teams typically like to use high picks on players with good size. But if you ignore that, things tend to work out beautifully. ...

We have had Marc Stein on the show. We have done rapid fire on the show. But somehow this is the first time we have done rapid fire with Marc Stein. He got himself on rapid fire probation with one incredibly un-rapid answer, but all in all, of cou...