Max Strus told his team to "believe" in themselves or stay home, then missed every shot in a crucial elimination game.

His text was spot on, but it needed to come from, say, a Donovan Mitchell or Darius Garland instead. Strus meant well, but ...

Stephen has been at the forefront of model-based gambling projections, first as the founder of AccuScore in 2004, then as the original source powering all of ESPN's Pickcenter, and subsequently as the ...