Revolutions all have one thing in common: Eventually, they end.
Sports revolutions are no different. But unlike political ones, revolutions in other realms have no clear demarcation dates, no declarations of independence or treaties to serve as endpoints. English textile mills didn’t send out press releases in 1837 to inform everyone that the First Industrial Revolution was now complete.
Instead, these revolutions end because the victors steadily, gradually won. As it happens, everybody gets used to it and moves on with their lives.
So it is with the analytics revolution in basketball. It’s over and the nerds won, and now we’re on to whatever comes next.
That point was hammered home this week when Houston Rockets president and GM Daryl Morey — the one executive in the league most associated with analytics, and the first “numbers guy” to become a team’s lead executive, back in 2007 — stepped away from…
