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Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus writes: Tuesday's game turned early because of foul trouble, but not the way you'd imagine. It was the Magic that saw two starters sidelined by a pair of quick fouls, which proved a blessing in disguise. Hedo...

Joe Johnson can score the basketball. He hits big shots in crunch time. He has been the man when the Hawks have been at their best. NBA teams pay well for those things. However, increasingly they do so over the howls of statistical experts. There'...

On Thursday night, thanks to a Derek Fisher 3 and some Sasha Vujacic free throws, a result was determined in dramatic fashion. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Kevin Pelton has won second place in the 2010 TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackdown. Jeffrey Ma had...

Jeff Ma has already won this year's TrueHoop Stat Geek Smackdown, by virtue of the fact that he has an eight point lead on Kevin Pelton, with only seven points remaining at stake. His victory was built on a new approach. In year's past he has done...

On Basketball Prospectus, Kevin Pelton digs deep into the idea that LeBron James is not called for enough fouls. After some smart analysis, he concludes: "I think the numbers suggest that to the extent that James is called for fewer fouls than we wou...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Kevin Pelton writes that Bruce Bowen's legacy is a complicated one -- charitable spirit, borderline dirty player, hopeful symbol for the undrafted and, of course ... I would also say Bowen brought a certain level...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Ramona Shelburne of the Los Angeles Daily News catches up with Baron Davis. Money quote from Davis: "I sucked. I sucked last year. I admit it. What (else) should I say?" The Thunder have hired former Sixers and B...

Posted by Timothy Varner of 48 Minutes of Hell. I'm always more sympathetic to players who test positive for PEDs when the phrase "over the counter" is part of the story. If a substance is readily available to your local high sc...

With three out of five series completed, only three of eight stat geeks have yet to whiff. Everybody got the Lakers and the Cavaliers, but only John Hollinger, David Berri and Kevin Pelton predicted that the Mavericks would knock off the Spurs. Holli...

At Basketball Prospectus, Kevin Pelton points out that just a few days into the playoffs, we have already had an insane list of truly stellar point guard performances. He cites the following: 36 points, 11 assists (Derrick Rose) 29 points,...

Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus watched presumed top overall pick Blake Griffin like a hawk during his Final Four performance. He saw plenty to like in the Oklahoma star, especially explosiveness around the basket. But he also raises some conce...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Had a chance to trade emails with Kevin Pelton of Basketball Prospectus during the live blog of the All-Star Game. Kevin rightfully pointed out that naming Mo Williams to replace Chris Bosh was the primary reason the East g...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Kevin Pelton at Basketball Prospectus was a little skeptical of the Atlanta Hawks' early success: After all, the Hawks' offseason could have been described with little hyperbole as being semi-disastrous; the team did not mak...

Kevin Arnovitz watched Derrick Rose very closely last night, and here's what he noticed. Two of my favorite recent pieces of basketball writing come by way of Basketball Prospectus. The first is Kevin Pelton's examination of the Lakers' pressure def...

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Kevin Pelton lost his treasured Seattle Supersonics this year. But there's an ancillary benefit for the rest of us -- Pelton will have more time to apply his otherworldly basketball analytics to the rest of the league. ...