NBA: The Westbrook Effect

[Spurtacular]

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2017/1...ook-okc-effect

Kevin Durant and Victor Oladipo were named NBA players of the week on Monday, and James Harden is the league MVP through the first two months.....

Not exactly a new theory, but a new article on this.

[DMC]

They learned that stats >>>> team success so they focused on their own.

[hater]

[Spurtacular]

Since 2010–11 — the first season that OKC made a deep playoff run, and also the first season that Westbrook posted a usage rate north of 30 percent — 17 players have tallied at least 500 minutes for the Thunder one season and 500 minutes while playing elsewhere in their following season. This list includes a former MVP (Durant), five more former top-five picks (Oladipo, Kanter, Dion Waiters, Harden, and Jeff Green, who played in OKC in 2010–11 and in Boston in 2012–13, with a year off in between due to heart problems), and a broader mix of young players and veterans. On average, they fared significantly better in several key statistics in their first season with a new team. (The year-over-year difference for each statistic depicted in the below graph is statistically significant at a 95 percent confidence level.)