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I'm happy to announce once again that the usual events will be happening here in Boston around Sloan-time. As usual I'm only loosely "organizing" these things; the Fours (#1 sports bar in the country according to SI!) will have space for us in the usual upstairs room Thursday night and basketball city is open on Sunday.

I won't be getting to the Fours til about 9:30 Thursday but they're open before then so feel free to show up anytime. I recommend the Buffalo Chicken Nachos. There's a Justin Timberlake concert that night so the rest of the bar could get crowded for a short while when the concert ends, but we should have the dining-room area upstairs mostly to ourselves for most of the night.

On Sunday open gym goes from 10-4 so there should be plenty of time to play. I expect a lot of journalists in addition to geeks. All are welcome (not like I could stop anyone even if I wanted to, which I don't).

It's been amazing to watch this community grow so much from the 10-ish people we had at the Fours the first year! So please do stop by if you're in town.

See you in 2 weeks!

-MZ

Thanks for the info. It sounds like it should be a great time. Unfortunately my flight leaves Sunday morning so I will have to miss out on the tough competition on the court.

I too am leaving Sunday morning, but I'll be sure to hit up the Fours on Thursday night to hangout.

Will be there for the basketball, yearly tradition of course!

Anybody else plan on going to either event?

Last call for tonight?

CoachO wrote:Last call for tonight?

I think quite a few people go, not just people from this board.

P.S. You know MikeZ is Mike Zarren, Assistant GM of the Celtics, right?

Having a beer at home tonight. Best to everybody. And here's a source of some sorrows for drowning: http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/10520 ... -analytics. Yeesh... it burns.

Since 2006-7 5 of the 7 title winners have used the services of someone who has posted here and would be considered an analytics guy. The other 2 winners were the Lakers and they had or have a guy name Einstein I heard. Not sure how advanced his stuff is. Found a few notes about him years ago thru some internet digging, And I heard they had Rudy T.'s son doing something too.

Any thoughts about what was seen and heard at the conference this year?

Crow wrote:Any thoughts about what was seen and heard at the conference this year?

Mike Z worked on his outside shooting, the Celtics Hub guys repped homecourt pretty well, and the tall guys were the best players there.