{"id":1296,"date":"2022-06-26T10:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fykaacaan.com\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2022-06-26T10:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T10:30:02","slug":"seventy-five-honors-nbas-75-year-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fykaacaan.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/26\/seventy-five-honors-nbas-75-year-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventy-Five\u00a0Honors\u00a0NBA\u2019s 75-Year Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Seventy-Five: Best\u00a0NBA\u00a0Players and Teams Rated by Statistician who has Seen Games Since 1947<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prolific\u00a0sports reporter and pioneer\u00a0NBA\u00a0statistician\u00a0Dave Heeren takes fans on an epic journey honoring the league\u2019s 75-year legacy and its greatest players in\u00a0his latest book,\u00a0Seventy-Five.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heeren\u00a0is known all over the world for his\u00a0TENDEX rating system \u2014 the gold standard for ranking players, projecting drafts and rating the best teams in the\u00a0NBA.\u00a0Seventy-Five<\/em>\u00a0is filled with fascinating facts and figures, humorous anecdotes, a ranking of the top 75 players of all time and so much more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Hoops fans and stat geeks will find a treasure trove of fascinating facts, stories from the sidelines and a statistical ranking of the top 75 NBA players of all time in the entertaining new book, Seventy-Five<\/em>. Author, prolific sports reporter and pioneer NBA statistician Dave Heeren is known worldwide for his TENDEX rating system \u2014 the gold standard for ranking players, projecting drafts and rating the best teams in the NBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cScoring is not everything. Some of the greatest players don\u2019t score a lot of points, and some who do score a lot of points aren\u2019t all that good,\u201d Heeren said in a recent interview. \u201cMy first full-time job was as a statistician for the New York Knicks, and Wilt Chamberlain was looking over my shoulder. He wanted to know what his TENDEX rating was!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heeren has witnessed all 75 years of the NBA through his work as a team statistician for the Knicks, writing books, doing columns for The Sporting News<\/em> and just his love of the game since he was a child, and he draws upon his comprehensive knowledge to lend valuable insights to his coverage of the league\u2019s 75-year legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seventy-Five<\/em> provides an in-depth, entertaining journey through 75 years of the NBA, with information of interest to basketball fans everywhere, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– A look-back at all 75 years with TENDEX (statistical) input, including insights dating to the Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain prime years;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– How, during a 30-year period, TENDEX rated two-thirds of the elite NBA draft choices more accurately than the NBA\u2019s multi-million dollar scouting system;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Dozens of fascinating facts and humor-infused anecdotes;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– The four legendary players in a near tie for greatest of all time according to TENDEX;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– The greatest NBA teams of all-time, greatest shooters, rebounders, playmakers, defensive players, most durable players and most athletic players according to TENDEX formulae;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– A chart rating in order the top 75 players of all time;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– \u2026 and more!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dave Heeren<\/strong>\u00a0is an award-winning journalist and author of 18 books.\u00a0He invented his pioneer statistics system (later known as TENDEX) during his sophomore year at the University of Delaware. He has served as a statistician for the NY Knicks, a sports editor, news editor\u00a0and editor-in-chief. His other books include\u00a0five\u00a0Basketball Abstract<\/em>\u00a0books,\u00a0Basic Ball\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Sporting Stings<\/em>. His TENDEX system has been used officially on every continent that had major professional basketball leagues between 1988 and 2013, and has been used to rate players by the Australian pro league and\u00a0Europe\u2019s most prominent professional league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Article by Fykaa Caan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seventy-Five: Best\u00a0NBA\u00a0Players and Teams Rated by Statistician who has Seen Games Since 1947. Prolific\u00a0sports reporter and pioneer\u00a0NBA\u00a0statistician\u00a0Dave Heeren takes fans on an epic journey honoring the league\u2019s 75-year legacy and its greatest players in\u00a0his latest book,\u00a0Seventy-Five.\u00a0 Heeren\u00a0is known all over the world for his\u00a0TENDEX rating system \u2014 the gold standard for ranking players, projecting drafts …<\/p>\n

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