Today’s guest columnist is Evan Wasch, executive vice president of Basketball Strategy & Analytics at the NBA. One of the most special things about sports is that they are rooted in championship traditions. Whether it’s the NBA champion lifting the Larry O’Brien Trophy, the NCAA basketball champion cutting down the nets, or the Masters champion
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The Las Vegas rehauled their front office this offseason, bringing in Becky Hammon as head coach and Natalie Williams as general manager to replace Bill Laimbeer and Dan Padover, respectively. They also lost veterans Liz Cambage and Angel McCoughtry in free agency. Those are dramatic changes for a team that finished with the second-best record
The 2020-21 NBA season was a tough transition for that group of incoming rookies. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there was no summer league for them to get their feet wet. After draft day, they went right into an abbreviated training camp. They were pretty much thrown to the fire from the get-go. One