Evan Wasch, EVP Of NBA Basketball Strategy & Analytics
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Evan Wasch, EVP Of NBA Basketball Strategy & Analytics, joins Sam Amick and Anthony Slater to discuss the In-Season Tournament, successes and tweaks, player buy-in, and schedule making.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Tampering Podcast, part of the Athletic NBA Show Network. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Sam Amick, host of the tampering pod here with usual suspect Anthony Slater coming to us. |
| 0:19.2 | If you're on YouTube, you can see him with the |
| 0:20.9 | incredible background from his car on the run slater i'm going to skip over you this week hold on |
| 0:26.7 | hold that please do please do yes indeed indeed with good reason i hope you're parked by the way |
| 0:32.0 | um we don't end up have a lot of guests on the show because maybe we're egocentric and like hearing ourselves talk too much. |
| 0:41.2 | We got a good guess this week's later. |
| 0:42.8 | We have the one and only Evan Wash, NBA executive VP of basketball strategy and analytics. |
| 0:51.1 | I'm going to refer to him and I don't think he'll like this, but we'll see how it lands. |
| 0:55.2 | Evan, you have like this Wizard of Oz compare, like vibe with the NBA. |
| 1:00.2 | And it's not the greatest comp because Adam Silver is the leader of all things NBA. |
| 1:05.5 | But you are the guy behind the scenes who has everything to do with playing tournament, |
| 1:10.3 | schedule, in season tournament |
| 1:12.0 | which we're in the middle of here in Vegas how do you feel about this this label Evan and |
| 1:16.4 | thank you so much for joining us good to be with you guys and excited for competition here in |
| 1:22.6 | Vegas I'm not sure because you can see me right now. So that seems this is the big reveal. |
| 1:28.7 | This is the big reveal. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm out there a lot talking about the tournament. |
| 1:32.9 | Sure. |
| 1:34.0 | But yeah, certainly, certainly been a little bit behind the scenes for years, kind of putting |
| 1:38.6 | the tournament together. |
| 1:40.2 | Yeah. |
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