Shockingly lazy article by Wilbon. He apparently writes his articles by "feel" too. If he had bothered to ask anyone they could have explained stuff like this to him:
One stat, according to ESPN Stats & Information, assigned Curry some number in excess of 100 for his 3-point sniping from the corners. This tells you just how bogus the exercise is if the “percentage” reports to be greater than 100.

It’s like calculating points per 100 possessions, a very popular go-to stat in NBA circles. Why is that more important than points per 48 minutes, which is the actual time in which an NBA game is played?
This part was rich too:
The NBA’s most lucrative free-agent summer is set to begin and I can only wonder if advanced analytics are helping or hurting the game. My friend Neville Waters, a multiple sports fanatic with an MBA from Georgetown, shook his head when the name Dwight Howard was mentioned. “Teams are going to look at Dwight Howard,” he said, “and through advanced analytics mostly determine they want to give him tens of millions of dollars even though there’s apparently no advanced metric that tells you what the results prove … He’s not a good teammate and is a complete risk to sign …”
The risk of signing Dwight has been discussed ad nauseam in sites all over the internet. The most analytically-minded people (except maybe guys like Morey and Hinkie) know he's a complete idiot but they think his indisputable on-court production is worth the risk.

http://theundefeated.com/features/mission-impossible-african-americans-analytics/
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