When the NBA began to confront the same sort of deleterious aesthetic erosion that had confronted MLB years earlier -- in the NBA's case, a drastic spike in three-point attempts and the near-extinction of the midrange jumper -- the parallels were too significant to ignore. It left me with a question that needed answering: Is it inevitable that a fully matured analytics movement, if left unchecked, will wreck a sport's aesthetics?
