The NBA begins it’s season this week with 21 General Managers who never played the game professionally.  Fourteen of the past fifteen GM hires have been non-players, and most are widely praised for embracing analytics.  What is also interesting, soon to be NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, is an advocate of the analytics takeover.  Also, NBA Executive Vice President of Operations, Steve Hellmuth,said recently, “we are a league driven by data.”  God help us all.###