A little different today on a Wednesday.

I'm going to take a look at something that's happening historically in basketball.

We haven't had this run before, but actually why it doesn't work.

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and life advice.

I've talked about usage rate before on the show, and I was working on something here, and

it's kind of a theory, and I think it's been proven.

It's a little nerdy, but I want to get into it, because I think it's actually very important

with what we're seeing in today's version of the NBA, where the best player during the

regular season is getting involved more than we've ever seen at any point in the history

of this game.

Now, just to remind everybody without getting into all the math of what usage rate basically

is, it's a player's field goal attempts, the free throw attempts, their turnovers, the team's

total minutes, and then you divide that by the teams attempts and all these different

things and team turnovers and the players minutes into that.

Basically, Russell Westbrook in his triple double season is the highest usage rate we've

ever seen in the history of the NBA, because if you watch those games, he had the ball in

his hands as much as any player we've ever seen.

I think it's pretty simple, and I'm going to run through some of these players.

Now, what I mean by what it's doing to today's game, which I think sometimes too, with

a force of analytics behind it, because I've also said this, I don't think there's ever

been a bigger gap between what we've seen the regular season, the regular season version

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