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Hey guys, it's Pablo. That sound you're hearing in the background of my voice should signal that we were doing a very different episode of ESPN Daily

because I just walked through a very long corridor

at a convention center in Boston.

There were a lot of dudes, some women,

a lot of dudes milling around, wearing suits, holding resumes,

very intense and ambitious.

And like along one of these walls in this hallway, it's kind of like a corporate science fair

almost.

There are headlines on these posters, and the headlines say stuff like a Markov approach to untangling

intention versus execution in tennis. Another one, I'm looking at a game theoretic approach

to the football end game. When should the two-minute drill begin? And so obviously the question

would be like, where the hell am I? What is this place? And this is, of course, the preeminent den of sports nerdery in America. The MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. You may have heard of it, but maybe you haven't. And if you really want an explanation as to what is going on here, we found the guy who you should ask.

So Darrell Mori, president of basketball operations of the Philadelphia 76ers,

for the non-nerds out there, Darrell, what is this event?

I think it's like Gretzky said.

We're passing the puck to where it's going.

So we're trying to stay three to five years ahead of

all the trends in sports, whether that be analytics or VR or NFTs or drone racing, whatever it might be.

Why did you create this event in the first place? The sports nerds were wandering aimlessly through the

desert until they found the oasis of our conference.

I've always thought of you as a Moses figure, yeah.

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