As if Celtics fans need more motivation to root against the Heat in the NBA Finals, our John Tomase explains why basketball savant Nikola Jokic, Boston native Bruce Brown and the Nuggets have his full support.
Betting against an opponent s future is the NBA s market inefficiency
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Author of two books
A DECADE AGO, NBA teams searching for an edge embraced new philosophies that injected the game with analytics. That pursuit is carrying on with an advancing new trend among forward-looking franchises.
Last season, when the Golden State Warriors owned by Joe Lacob, a partner at one of the nation s preeminent venture capital firms traded D Angelo Russell to the Minnesota Timberwolves, the deal was rather nakedly structured around betting against the Wolves future.