Hoop Atlas

“When discussing greatness, we have too often distilled it down to how many rings someone has won, neglecting to celebrate the incredible influence that players have had on the evolution of basketball. Kirk’s book beautifully explains this other side of greatness—how one player’s skill and style of play can change the game forever.” — JJ Redick, ESPN and The Old Man and the Three”Kirk Goldsberry has done here what only Kirk Goldsberry seems to be able to do, which is: make statistics and cartography not only interesting but fun. I wish this book was 800 pages longer.” — Shea Serrano, bestselling author of Basketball (and Other Things)“Few have done more than Goldsberry to help fans visualize the changes in basketball and shape the way we think about the game. That continues in Hoop Atlas—a fun, digestible love letter to the game’s greatest innovators. In vivid detail, Goldsberry outlines how basketball got here and where it’s going next.” — Zach Lowe, ESPN“You don’t have to be a stats geek to enjoy the ESPN writer’s new book, which pairs digestible analysis of basketball analytics with instructive data visualizations. The result is a vivid portrait of the NBA’s stylistic evolution.”  — Sports Illustrated on Sprawlball “This is a fascinating read for today’s NBA fans, and the jaunty illustrations by Aaron Dana add both depth and fun.”  — Booklist on Sprawlball 

Kirk Goldsberry is the author of Sprawlball and one of the leading experts in basketball analytics, a booming new field that has taken the sport by storm. He has worked as the vice president of strategic research for the San Antonio Spurs and the chief analytics consultant for USA Basketball. As a staff writer at ESPN, he has written hundreds of articles about the NBA. He currently teaches Sports Analytics within the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his family.