Hi, I'm Prithi Varathan, and I run 30 for 30 podcasts. You're about to listen to season 15 of our show.

It's six episodes, and we're giving all of it to you right away, because this story is a journey.

I promise if you're an episode in and you're making guesses about where this might be going,

a lot of you will be wrong. I was wrong, and that's part of what I love about it.

This season, we get into the story of a little-known genius

who predicted the future of basketball,

who saw the way numbers would change the game.

But then he vanished, and all he left was a website.

It's a story about basketball,

but it's also a story about the wild, reckless things

humans do to try to live forever.

I hope you enjoy it. We sure loved making it.

Some might think it's odd for a man to release the rights of his greatest work, but not Martin Manley.

I, Martin Manley, being the creator and owner of this site, neither hold nor retain any claim or copyright

on any part of this. Rather, I release all rights to this work, making it public domain. Anyone can do with it

whatever they wish. Martin Manley was definitely odd. He slept every other day. For years, he only drank Pepsi. For the last

decade of his life, he wore a fedora at all times, except in church, or if he was sleeping. And he was

obsessive about basketball, not the action, but the stats.

For all his eccentricities, Martin also had a superpower.

But not the cape and tight sort of thing.

His power dealt with numbers.

Whenever he looked at them, they appeared across the color spectrum,

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