What Gary Sutton has said about NBA salary cap
2 quotes · 1 episode · Jun 11, 2026
Gary Sutton, Business intelligence and analytics leader and author of data science and statistics books including Statistics Slam Dunk, has been quoted on NBA salary cap 2 times in 1 episode of Digital Social Hour, most recently on June 11, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Sutton found that teams that spend more on player salaries win more, with a huge gap between playoff and non-playoff teams.
“But there's a huge difference between teams that qualify for postseason play and teams that didn't”
Digital Social Hour: The Project Management Problem Nobody Talks About... | Gary Sutton | DSH #2013 (Jun 11, 2026) · Listen from 11:55
Sutton argued intra-season parity got noticeably worse after the 1984 salary cap and the league had no real parity problem beforehand.
“interest season parity actually got noticeably worse after the salary cap was implemented, regardless of how you want to measure it”
Digital Social Hour: The Project Management Problem Nobody Talks About... | Gary Sutton | DSH #2013 (Jun 11, 2026) · Listen from 14:53
Episodes
The Project Management Problem Nobody Talks About... | Gary Sutton | DSH #2013Digital Social Hour · Jun 11, 2026 · 1 h 1 min
Sean Kelly talks with analytics author Gary Sutton about NBA data on the draft, tanking, salary cap, hot hand and betting, plus AI and project management.
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