I believe the American people can do better than points per game.

31% of all field goals are three-point shots and 77% of free throws are made free throws. So you end

up with 1% of all the players owing 99% of the salary because 58% of the shots aren't counted equally and I think we can do better.

Thinking basketball puck Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben, and if Bernie Sanders wants to discuss

scoring, we will discuss scoring today that's what we're going to do actually talk

about the best scores of all time we are going to do it a little differently though.

We're going to talk about the value of scoring based on impact metrics.

I've coincidentally done a lot of work this year and especially over the summer on scoring and trying to quantify

its value, what's the relationship between volume and efficiency.

So we'll talk about that today but man it feels

topical for August I see people talking about who the best scores are on

Twitter and sort of there's this arc to the season where once you

get past the all-star break and the crescendo of the playoffs and sort of the

come down of the draft and the free agency.

It's like, oh, then we just hit August.

You know, people start talking about mannays.

When did that become a thing? I have no idea. We won't talk about

manas today. Instead we'll take the deep dive, look at some new stuff around

scoring efficiency, talk about the greatest scores in

NBA history. Let's just get it out up front, okay?

Dirk Navitzky is the greatest big man score in history based on the numbers at least the numbers that

we're gonna look at today and of course you can make a stylistic argument for that

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