Kobe Bryant's practice free throw success rate

Hi all - I just got back from an amazing week off.

It’s good to be back.

Trevor

Tweet of the week (5 tweets)

“something a mentor of mine once told me that i will pass along: a great way to stay curious/stretch yourself into something new is to pick a new-to-you obsession every season -- can be a word, a genre, an actor, a color, a place -- and curate your own little festival around it” 1/

“and suddenly you start to refract the world around that thing -- so if you pick, say, opera, or F1 racing, or emily dickinson, or diana ross, or ANYTHING + start reading books about it + listening to podcasts/albums + doing double-feature movie nites new patterns will emerge” 2/

Who are the odious figures? (article)

“But even that phrase, odious figures, I’m made uncomfortable by. Like okay, you can cite Hitler. Hitler’s odious. I think we make ourselves stupider. I like to ask this question: does this person favor price controls on prescription drugs? Well, they might, they might not. To me, that’s a terrible view that will kill many thousands of people, maybe more. But I don’t think of those people as odious.”

To be evil you have to have intent.

The sounds of Mexico City (website)

Fun little site that explains & plays various sounds you hear walking the streets of Mexico City.

How effective is single payer healthcare? (article)

“Single payer was overwhelmingly built on the post-World Wars consensus and environment. It operates as a monopsony. What on earth would make us think that it would be stable into the future?”

Old universities are doing terrible rebrands (tweet)

These compare to the old logos in the same way that a suburban town compares to an old city center.

Picture of the Lakers’ practice freethrow numbers (image)

I’m surprised by how many people had done more practice free throws vs Kobe. Yet his practice FT % is closest to his real game FT %. I’m kinda shocked how some players can have such different rates between practice & games. It looks like they kept track because they were ranked 29th in the league in FT %.

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