What Changes in a Player’s Numbers When a Star Teammate Misses Games?

When a star sits, his box score line disappears, but his possessions do not. Somewhere between 25 and 35 percent of a team’s plays often run through its best player while he is on the floor, and on the night he is listed as out, every one of those plays has to be finished by someone else. The interesting question ...

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