Throughout NBA basketball history, there are many what-ifs and fan-forced asterisks for championships won. For the Pudding, Russell Samora calculated which teams over the past 25 seasons benefited the most from opponent injuries, using a scale of least “ethical” to most.
Samora uses the traditional pile-o-heads method to visualize the number of missed games due to injury. Heads are sized by how much a player added to team wins.
As a Warriors fan, I am obligated to say that injuries are part of the game and sometimes randomness swings in your favor.
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