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"Simple" Player Ratings While we don't believe much in single number player ratings, the "82games Simple" rating gives a quick read on how a player is doing with his team this season ...and by this metric there's an early leader...

"Clutch" Stats Sortable per minute clutch stats... ...and while a certain player in Houston has scored lots of points in clutch time, there's some competition brewing!

Team Won-Lost Pages The Denver Nuggets edged the Sixers for best record in close games last season...who will be best in '19-20?

Greatest NBA Underdog Champion? The Raptors exciting triumph over the mighty Warriors raises the question, where does Toronto's achievement rank for least likely NBA champions in the modern NBA era?

NBA Playoffs 'Death Lineups' We've heard for some time now about the Warriors "death lineup" and the "hampton five" and they certainly lived up to the billing. What other teams have had dominant 5-man units in the postseason?

Do the NBA Hustle Stats matter? As the avalanche of publicly available NBA data only grows, the real question is 'Do these stats actually matter?'