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Tommy Beer: Most points in the clutch in the playoffs over the past three years combined: 1. Jalen Brunson: 143 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander: 84 3. Tyrese Haliburton: 48 4. Anthony Edwards: 43 5. Nikola Jokic: 36 6. Cade Cunningham: 35
NBA Stat: Worst clutch 3PT% in the 2025-26 NBA Regular Season (min. 15 clutch 3PA): 1. Cade Cunningham — 6.7% 2. Paolo Banchero — 10.5% 3. PJ Washington — 11.1% 4. Michael Porter Jr. — 16.0% 5. Russell Westbrook — 18.8% (via Clutch Numbers) #NBA
Ray Allen: 'What's happened is we've lost the mid-range game and I hear coaches yelling no mid-range shots. And then we've lost post-up players. Bigs don't even have a place in the game anymore. That to me is the tragedy because now what we do is we have these guys that work in basketball offices that are analytic guys that sit here and say why we need to shoot more threes than twos. And they just they convince the upper management and everybody else that guys that never played the game, you should be shooting more threes than twos. And I just think, and here's the thing, here's the proof. Okay, so Golden State won, they shoot a lot of threes and Boston won and they shot a lot of threes and they lost because they shot a lot of threes as well. But this past year, look at Oklahoma City and Indiana. Both had guys that could shoot threes because you need three-point shooters out there and you set the game up, but they were killing on pick and roll in the mid-range. Yes. So when I came in the game, you had some incredible pick and roll players. You had some incredible mid-range guys. It was it was insane. You could learn so much from these these dudes and the game is just we've lost that. And that's an art.'
Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns, in attendance for the 2026 ESPY Awards at Lincoln Center on Wednesday night, took a swipe at one of the team’s playoff foes as New York looked to take home the Best Team award. “You can pick up all the analytics and statistics you want,” Towns said during a pre-show interview Wednesday with ESPN’s Kevin Negandhi and Christine Williamson. “Analytically, we should win this one. We should win this one analytically.”
"The league is overrun with strategy," an Eastern Conference scout said. "Honestly, I'm not sure how many people who work in the league are actually watching the games." "Yes, there are more graduate degrees in front offices now, but that's only part of the picture," a Western Conference general manager said. "The aprons force you to analyze all of your spending more and put more attention to detail on getting the most out of each salary slot. The owners put that into the rules, and the players accepted it. This is all a choice."
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Jeremias Engelmann: No player in the NBA lowers the points that his teammates score, while on the court with him, more than Jaylen Brown He lops off 4 points, per 100, from each of the 4 teammates that share the court with him
David Lee: stars tend to suppress their teammates' PPG, but they pair that scoring usage with hyper-efficiency (Giannis/prime Joel), influence high quality shots (Wemby), and/or suppress TOs (Luka). in contrast, a jump in Jaylen Brown's scoring output leads to diminishing returns for BOS👇
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David West: I am neither insecure nor lack the intelligence to understand data. Im a fan of the game, a lifer if you will, but the nerd influence is too much. Style, nuance, individualism, mid range, post play, all gone. Dweeb based basketball is predictable. 3s or 2s, nothing else.
Brown started crashing out after reading Marks’ comment. He said, “Analytics nowadays used to discredit and control narratives – Roll the ball out none of these guys better than me on both ends who does he work for.” Marks then pointed out that he would want the Celtics star on his team, and that he doesn’t prefer analytics. He also added that Brown would surely help any team in the league win a championship, citing his impactful winning record in the last four years ((191-80 in the last 4 years).
Brown then posted on X, “Nobody has won more combined regular-season and playoff games since I entered the league 10 years ago,” before claiming that analytics are ‘ruining’ hoops right now. He also asked Marks to state his source and identify the analyst who made the comment.