Mavs Moneyball · May 5, 2018
Centers are still valuable, you just better be right
One of the more interesting aspects of the NBA Draft is how it often reflects broader trends in the NBA.
Heading into this year’s draft, the small-ball revolution is nearly complete. The league has transformed over the last eight years into a three-point firing beast, with nearly every team in the league, even the bad ones, shooting a lot of threes and rarely playing two bigs simultaneously. As a consequence, the traditional center, the kind we remember as recently as the mid-2000s, is basically extinct.
