Pacers-Pistons Malice at the Palace Alt Timeline with Jeremias Engelmann
NBA front office veteran Jeremias Engelmann (5x5, Silver Bulletin, xRAPM.com) and host Thomas Emerick trigger the alternate timeline. We head to Auburn Hills, Michigan on Friday November 19th, 2004 — a nationally televised regular season game between two of the decade's premier defensive juggernauts — and ask what happens to the NBA's balance of power if a cup of diet coke lands a few feet short.
Jeremias worked in the Dallas Mavericks and Phoenix Suns front offices, created ESPN's Real Plus-Minus (RPM) metric, and publishes great work on Substack for Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin and Royce…
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