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The NBA's pace-and-space offensive era has been defined by many things. But for me, above all else, one thing stands out as the most important innovation within basketball over the course of the last decade-plus.
The changing role of the NBA big man in an efficient offense.
No more is the NBA relying upon big, burly players to take up space inside and create shots in the post. After all, one of the key findings of the analytical revolution within basketball was that creating shots out of the post was one of the least efficient ways to score.