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John Hollinger

Biography

John Hollinger

John Hollinger is a senior writer for The Athletic. For the past two decades, he has been at the forefront of basketball’s statistical revolution, inventing several advanced metrics, including PER. In addition to stints at ESPN.com and SI.com, he also spent seven seasons as the Memphis Grizzlies’ Vice President of Basketball Operations. In 2018, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

John Hollinger

Books by John Hollinger

The Basketball 100: The Story of the Greatest Players in NBA History
by David Aldridge and John Hollinger, with The Athletic NBA Staff - History, Nonfiction, Sports

Over the course of 100 luminous player profiles, the best sports newsroom on the planet paints vivid portraits of the game’s most compelling characters. They include George Mikan, Gary Payton, Dennis Rodman, Allen Iverson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Steph Curry. Edited by award-winning reporters David Aldridge and John Hollinger, THE BASKETBALL 100 also answers the game’s toughest, most important questions: How should we weigh championship rings, versus statistical profiles, versus the “eye test”? Were the great players of yesteryear, like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell, propelled by the inferior athleticism of their competition, or would they have been transcendent in any era? And of course, who’s the GOAT --- MJ or LeBron?