Adjusted plus-minus (APM), developed by Wayne Winston and Jeff Sagarin and, separately, Dan Rosenbaum, adjusts for the ...

On a per-minute (or per-possession) basis, Jerome is one of the NBA’s most impactful offensive players, as measured by metrics like xRAPM. Assuming good health, Jerome is on pace to garner lots of ...

The NBA has some of the best-paid coaches in sports. Steve Kerr, Erik Spoelstra and Ty Lue all rank among the top 25 in the world in salary. But which NBA coaches actually make their teams better, and ...

Real NBA analytics — from former ESPN NBA editor Royce Webb and Jeremias Engelmann, creator of ESPN's RPM. Click to read 🏀 5x5 | Royce Webb, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Jeremias Engelmann’s essay “Why the Celtics actually won the Jaylen Brown trade“ ran at the Boston Globe this week and led the site’s most-read list all day Wednesday. (Read it here — subscription ...

Is the East really and truly back? That’s my overriding curiosity. Is the East as good as it looks on paper? I can’t wait to find out. I feel like the East has been subjected to Leastern Conference ...

Statistical draft models have several big advantages, compared to scouts: They are not swayed by aesthetics or random events, such as game-winning shots in the NCAA tournament. And they can “analyze” ...

It was my 32nd NBA deadline and probably would have gone down as the wildest and most unforgettable just because of the shock that still reverberates in the wake of the Luka Dončić/Anthony Davis ...

If you’ve followed NBA win-total predictions in the past, you’ll notice that this year is a strange one, and the reason is simple: The newly implemented anti-tanking rules have one major and several ...

One key mission at 🏀 5x5 will be to shed light on perhaps the most important innovation of the past few decades: artificial intelligence (AI). We want to provide a guide to how AI and machine ...

Last week, Nate Silver published his “Future of the Franchise” rankings — his semiannual feature covering all 30 teams and how they rank in NBA championship equity over the next decade. Nate asked me ...