Editor’s Note: Below is a discussion between Seth Partnow and John Hollinger. Both cover the NBA and basketball analytics for The Athletic. Partnow was formerly the Director of Basketball Research for the Milwaukee Bucks. Hollinger spent seven seasons as the Memphis Grizzlies’ Vice President of Basketball Operations.
Partnow: Ok, John. It appears we’ll actually know something about what the plan is for the NBA resuming play in the next week or so. There are lots of different ways we can go with this, but I’ll start with this question for you: How thick is the NBA Game Ops manual?
Hollinger: Compared to the Ops manual, the CBA is a blog post. Remember back in the day when you would get an actual phone book that had everybody’s number in it? The Ops manual is about as thick as the phone book if you lived in a decent-sized city. Like, over a million people decent-sized.
Partnow: Not to get back to my lawyering days, but…
