Thinking Basketball the book is available on Amazon in paperback and on Kindle. It’s been described as a “guide to being a responsible fan,” although if I were asked for a subtitle today it would be something like “Thinking Basketball: Why our minds need help making sense of complexity.”
Key themes of the book:
- It’s a team game — helping 4 instead of 1 (Scoring Blindness)
- Why some players help bad teams but not good teams (Portability)
- How easy it is for the best team ever to lose (Sample-Size Insensitivity)
- The final score changes our memories (Winning Bias)
- The importance of clutch, closers and Hero Ball (Late-Game Bias)
- The predictable shortcuts our minds take that shape our reactions to players, teams, free agency and trades
