Adir is a Ph.D. candidate who studies the emergence of basketball analytics in the NBA.

 

He is interested in two interrelated questions:

(1) What were the socio-material conditions that contributed to the rapid rise of NBA analytics, and why it plays such a central role nowadays;

 

(2) How basketball analytics modified the basketball network and changed long lasting basketball strategies, adjusted coaches’ agency, effected viewers’ experience, and more.

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Adir holds Master of Laws from UC Berkeley, Master of Philosophy and Bachelor of Law from Tel-Aviv University.

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Adir is a regular contributor to "Calcalist", where he writes about analytics and basketball. Here are a few Links to his column:

אבולוציה מואצת, לא תישא את שם הג׳ורדן לשווא, סטטיסטיקה של מאבק, כיול מחדש, שיעור בצניעות, שחמט לכדורסלנים, אנליטיקס למתחילים (1), על הגובה: עולם הכדורסל החדש של גולדן סטייט ווריירס

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