The Basketball Analytics team partners across Basketball Operations to transform data, research, and technology into actionable insights for front office, coaching, scouting, player development, and basketball strategy stakeholders. 

As a Basketball Data Scientist, your practical day-to-day and forward-thinking work will focus on turning complex basketball questions into rigorous analysis, clear models, useful tools, and decision-ready recommendations. Working closely with Basketball Analytics, Engineering, and Basketball Operations, you will own high-impact research and projects that connect technical rigor with real basketball insights. 

What You Will Do

• Own high-impact basketball data science and analysis initiatives.

• • Translate ambiguous basketball questions into clear analytical plans, research designs, models, tools, and recommendations
  • Conduct basketball research using statistical modeling, machine learning, exploratory analysis, and domain expertise to uncover actionable insights
  • Build, validate, and maintain models that help evaluate players, teams, lineups, tactics, and basketball decision-making questions
  • Work with large and complex basketball datasets, including tracking/spatiotemporal data, play-by-play, event data, lineup/personnel data, scouting information, and other internal sources