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The Culture of Moving Dots
Today I listened to a very well crafted, informative lecture by Rajiv Maheswaran on how basketball teams are using movement tracking devices and computing power to inform the decisions they make about...
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Bad Prof’s Top Basketball Books
Over the past four years, to develop my course on the Cultures of Basketball and to research my forthcoming book Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball, I’ve had...
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Bad Prof’s Top Basketball Books – Second Team
Yesterday, I began presenting the list of my favorite basketball books with my First Team All-Bad Prof selections. Today I move on to the second team (presented alphabetically by title), using the...
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Bad Prof’s Top Basketball Books – Third Team
Having selected my First Team and Second Team All-Bad Prof Books, I’m moving out of the top ten today. However, it’s important to say that these books are classics, that I personally love them, and...
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Bad Prof’s Top Basketball Books – Honorable Mention
Perhaps by now you’ve seen my First Team, Second Team, and Third Team All-Bad Prof Basketball Book List selections. They were the fifteen books, grouped into three tiers of five, that I’ve returned to...
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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent (Basketball) Knowledge
All my life, I have loved ordering my things. My new Matchbox cars go in one line, and the ones I inherited from my older brothers go in another one, and the ones I found or stole from my friends go...
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Bad Prof Ball Don’t Lie! Book Cover Poll: You make the Call!
Even before I finished writing Ball Don’t Lie!, I knew what the cover image would be: this beautiful piece by Nathan McKee. Nathan graciously consented to my using it and I proceeded happily to write...
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BREAKING: Bad Prof Ball Don’t Lie! Book Cover Poll Results
This just in. With 100 % of the precincts now returning, we are happy to announce the results of the Bad Prof Ball Don’t Lie! Book Cover Poll. Voter turnout reached levels unprecedented in the history...
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Why We Need Better Basketball History—for Darryl Dawkins
I did see Darryl Dawkins play, a lot. Not in person but on television. He loomed large in the imaginary series my best friend Robb and I would play out in my driveway or at the park. He’s dear to my...
View ArticlePre-order “Ball Don’t Lie!” Today!
I’m really excited to say that you can now pre-order Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball from Amazon starting today. The book is part of the exceptional Temple...
View ArticleWhat I Did in 2015
This felt like a productive, and pivotal, year for me. So I thought I’d gather together the links to some of my professional activities during 2015…because, well, I feel proud. In my teaching, I...
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Basketball Analytics: Reflections and Reservations
Okay, here’s the short version for those require maximum efficiency (n=”the point”/number of words) in their reading environment: At the heart of my reservations is my sense that value can be defined...
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Basketball Analytics (Take 2): Winning
I’m realizing from the feedback on my post about basketball analytics that the issues the phenomenon raises are more complex than what I’d thought or allowed for in that post. In fact, they are too...
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Towards a Techno-Scientific, Socio-Cultural, Tactico-Strategic History of...
I know, I keep rebooting. In my last post on this topic, I referred to a larger (academic) research project on the rise of basketball analytics. The first step in the project is a 5000-7000 word...
View ArticleOn Ball Don’t Lie! (live radio interview)
This morning I did the first of what I hope will be one billion interviews about my new book Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball. As a native of Madison,...
View ArticleInventing Basketball Autonomy (Ball Don’t Lie! Excerpt)
Allen Iverson was recently elected into the basketball Hall of Fame. To honor his inspiring career, I offer this excerpt from my new book Ball Don’t Lie! Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures...
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The Radical Free Agency of LeBron James
I spoke recently to the Department of Comparative American Studies at Oberlin College. I enjoyed reframing and revising the work on LeBron James’s “Decision” and “Return” that I published in Ball Don’t...
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The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent (Basketball) Knowledge
All my life, I have loved ordering my things. My new Matchbox cars go in one line, and the ones I inherited from my older brothers go in another one, and the ones I found or stole from my friends go...
View ArticleThe Culture of Moving Dots
Here is a video of “The Culture of Moving Dots: Toward a History of Counting and of What Counts in Basketball,” a public presentation I gave last week at a workshop on “Doing Sport History in the...
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Disbelieveland
Moments after the final buzzer signaled the improbable triumph of the Cleveland Cavaliers over the Golden State Warriors in this year’s NBA Finals, Cavs star LeBron James fell away from a celebratory...
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