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- ↑ "Calculating Individual Offensive and Defensive Ratings". Basketball-Reference.com . Sports Reference . Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- ↑ "NBA & ABA Career Leaders and Records for Defensive Rating". Basketball-Reference.com . Sports Reference . Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- ↑ "NBA & ABA Single Season Leaders and Records for Defensive Rating". Basketball-Reference.com . Sports Reference . Retrieved March 21, 2023.
- Dean Oliver (2004). Basketball on Paper: Rules and Tools for Performance Analysis. Potomac Books, Inc. pp. 342–. ISBN 978-1-59797-331-1.
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