Evan Wasch and Tom Carelli are the MVAs of the NBA. Most Valuable Administrators.
Wasch is the NBA’s senior vice president for basketball strategy and analytics. Carelli is senior vice president for broadcasting.
The meat of their jobs? Overseeing the NBA scheduling.
And what a job their staff has done this season. We always focus scheduling on back-to-backs and rugged road trips. Which is fine. The NBA took steps to minimize the rigors of schedules.
But as the NBA comes out of the all-star break Thursday for the mad dash to the April playoffs, time to salute not only the efforts at easing the physical demands of scheduling, but also the dramatic effects.