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Many involved in crypto saw Sandbankman Freed as a breath of fresh air from the usual

Wall Street buffs, but in just one month, his crypto exchange would collapse.

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or wherever you get your podcasts.

For those of you who aren't familiar, it's a gathering that yanks together some of the

greatest brains in a bottle in sports to discuss analytics and data and its increasing

role in our industry.

So my presence in Cambridge, Massachusetts is a bit like a scourge remake of Goodwill hunting

without the genius part or Matt Damon's lovely hair.

But despite my lacking all three of those things, I somehow manage to host a panel on

the role of analytics in football, the game we love, exploring the question of, if

common wisdom has the NBA 10 years behind Major League Baseball in the use of it's analytics,

why then is soccer 10 years behind the NBA?

Why is that?

And what will change it?

Luckily for you, the conversation features two other wonderful gents who shared a lot

of light on that question in one corner, ding, ding, ding, Darryl Morrie, the general manager

of your Houston Rockets.

He's an NBA data pioneer who's worked so long in that game.

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