The offensive philosophy taking over the NBA | Heliocentrism & its history

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Why are players putting up such crazy numbers? There's a new team-building philosophy that's sweeping the top of the league, and a long history of heavy-lifting that led us to this point. This video highlights some of the best players in NBA history along with analytics that lay out the league's fastest growing offensive strategy.

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Part 4 of the stats series explaining offensive load:

Ben Taylor is the author of Thinking Basketball, a Nylon Calculus contributor, creator of the Backpicks Top 40 series & host of the Thinking Basketball podcast.

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