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13 Aug 2025 Conversations with Tyler Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
“We have this piece now, where we’re ranking all 30 NBA teams by their long-term, 10-year chance of winning a championship, and they’re right in the middle for me, I think: 15th out of 30.”
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- Nate Silver
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- 13 Aug 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Okay. He will tell you that his strategies are very high variance. If Embiid is healthy, and if Edgecombe is good in his first year, and if Paul George is . . . If they won 56 games next year — 56 is a lot — 52, 53, would that be shocking to me? Not totally. The East is pretty wide open. They have this second timeline that now is a little bit more optimistic. We have this piece now, where we’re ranking all 30 NBA teams by their long-term, 10-year chance of winning a championship, and they’re right in the middle for me, I think: 15th out of 30. Who are the most important mentors in your life, including for basketball?…
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