Justin D. Johnson

I wouldn’t say I like statistics, and I don’t watch basketball to test my high school-level math skills, so at first, I had no idea what L10 and GB meant. I fired up the laptop with fierce determination and connected it to the Starbucks

As I sat in the nosebleeds, I realized there are so many things I am incapable of, but cheerleading tops that list. How much do these NBA cheerleaders make? Legs and pom-poms flew threw the air in a kind of

Basketball is a game of momentum. Throughout the course of a game, or a season, a team can get hot and overcome a deficit on the scoreboard with ease. On the other hand, sometimes things go from bad, to worse,

If you’re an NBA fan like myself, you may have noticed a lot of the players wear mouthguards. But why is that? NBA players wear mouthguards to protect their teeth and gums from damage. They reduce the risk of injury

The Miami Heat balcony box had enough tablets and notepads to look like a nuclear reactor control room, but it was full of NBA scouts and had no physicist in sight. The difference was we weren’t making salaries for nuclear

I confidently gazed out over the full-sized NBA court, my hawk-like eyes analyzing every detail. My line of work is mysterious, and a lot of people ask me how to become a basketball scout in the NBA. The impacts of