Before he became a well-known basketball analyst, Goldsberry was a cartographer, researching how geography impacts the world.
A graphic from"SprawlBall" by ESPN writer Kirk Goldsberry illustrates how most shots in the NBA come from the 3-point line or near the basket. By Ben Strauss Ben Strauss Sports and media reporter Email Bio Follow April 29 at 7:00 AM Kirk Goldsberry’s new book, “SprawlBall,” is about the evolution of basketball and the analytics driving it, but it opens with this line: “Geography is destiny.
When Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard drained a 37-foot series-clinching three-pointer last week, Goldsberry could confidently tell you that the shot, despite the distance, was in fact a good one. Set on the path of academia, he took a job at Michigan State, where his research focused on mapping food deserts and public health facilities. In 2011, Goldsberry accepted a visiting professorship at Harvard, and with a lighter teaching load he suddenly had time to think about another love: basketball.Goldsberry had played recreationally his entire life, and the spark of an idea had long flickered somewhere in his brain.
Added Morris Thomas, a former colleague at Michigan State: “We’d go to basketball games in Detroit, and he’d say things to me like, ‘Don’t you notice this guy is always shooting from that same spot?’ I think the wheels were turning then.” And that evolution has created something of an analytics backlash among some fans who don’t favor the defensive shift in baseball, for example, or the isolation-themed basketball of the Houston Rockets. Goldsberry is sympathetic, which he credits to his time working with the Spurs, Coach Gregg Popovich and General Manager R.C. Buford.
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