NBA Schedule Making with Evan Wasch
The Athletic NBA Daily
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🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Mike Vokunov brings on Evan Wasch Executive Vice President, Basketball Strategy & Analytics at National Basketball Association, about creating the NBA Schedule, the challenge of the In Season Tournament, and much more
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| 0:44.8 | I'm Mike Vorknoff, basketball reporter for The Athletic. |
| 0:48.6 | And we've got special guests with us. |
| 0:50.8 | Evan Wash, you have a very long, fancy title, which I was going to crib from your |
| 0:56.7 | LinkedIn page. |
| 0:57.3 | But honestly, I'm just going to go with what you prefer, which is scheduling czar, scheduling |
| 1:01.0 | guy, guy who makes all the games happen. |
| 1:04.3 | Which one of those three do you prefer? |
| 1:07.8 | None of them. |
| 1:08.7 | It is a team. |
| 1:10.0 | We're a scheduling team, but one member. |
| 1:14.5 | But, yeah, the titles are long here, so you can call me whatever you want. |
| 1:18.5 | I've been watching, Executive Vice President, Basketball Strategy and Analytics at the National Basketball Association. |
| 1:25.1 | It wasn't so bad. |
| 1:26.6 | I hate titles. |
| 1:28.4 | They're all so long and wordy and tell you absolutely nothing for the most part. |
| 1:32.3 | So, Evan, yesterday the NBA released. |
| 1:35.6 | It's 2023, 24 schedule. |
| 1:38.1 | Very long. |
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