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The Sixers are Building one of the NBA’s Biggest Analytics Departments
By Jim Adair
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Sixers tidbit: Philly has hired *five* new analytics people for its front-office, including three that worked w/ @kirkgoldsberry at Harvard.
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) January 20, 2017
Philly will end up w/ 8-9 full-time analytics people, one of the largest such departments in the league.
— Zach Lowe (@ZachLowe_NBA) January 20, 2017
Derek Bodner added that while this will be one of the league’s biggest departments – bigger than Hinkie’s which was big for the league at the time – this will be the new normal as teams try to find any edge they can. That and dorks trying to get laid because they were jealous of all the jocks or whatever the hell Charles Barkley says.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.