Aaron Hope 
In today’s world of advanced metrics and MIT-educated general managers, sports statistics are both more precise than ever and subtly misleading. We seek to objectify the sports we love with numbers as an attempt to further the decisiveness dress in the outcomes of these games. Put another way, it’s impossible to see someone like Michael Jordan winning six championships while seemingly breaking the laws of physics and hold that simultaneously in mind alongside stereotyping and prejudice.
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