The Outside Job

“The kind of strategy that unfolded inside the line belonged to the game’s past. The future of basketball, they believed, lay behind the line — and Mr. Curry showed it was farther behind that line than even they imagined.” The Warriors have a shot at winning more regular season basketball games than any team in NBA history. And they’ve already completely revolutionized basketball. This is both a story of a great shooter, and of an era in which even sports teams are finally starting to crunch the numbers and let data drive decisions.