NBA salary cap
Subject in Basketball
NBA salary cap has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Digital Social Hour. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Gary SuttonBusiness intelligence and analytics leader and author of data science and statistics books including Statistics Slam Dunk
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
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
Podcasts
- Digital Social Hour · 1 episode
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.