Johnny Carver (sports author)

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Jonathan Richard Carver (born October 6, 1995) is an American sports author and basketball analytics contributor, best known for his book Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player. [1] [2]

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Biography

Carver was born in Shawnee, Kansas, the son of Bradley and Liza Carver. [1] [3] Carver graduated from Olathe Northwest High School in 2014 after previously attending Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. [1] His father played basketball at Shawnee Mission Northwest High School, where he broke the school's scoring record. [1] He went on to play college basketball for Kansas State University in the 1980s. [1] [3] [4] [5] His brother, Steve, broke his father's record [1] at the same high school and played college basketball at the College of the Holy Cross. [1] [3] [4] [5]

Carver has struggled with health complications, and has been hospitalized frequently with ulcerative colitis, which caused him to quit basketball prior to his senior year of high school. [1] [3] [4] In college, he worked for the Arkansas Razorbacks Men's Basketball Team helping with basketball analytics. [6] He served as a basketball operations intern for the Indiana Pacers in the summer of 2016. [7] He graduated from the Sam M. Walton College of Business in 2017. [5] He is currently a law student at the University of Miami School of Law. [8]

Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player

Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player released in January 2015, when Carver was a freshman at the University of Arkansas. [1] [4] The book is based primarily on an algorithm that he created to determine the best player in NBA history. [1] [3] He began writing the book in high school after he lost his playing career to ulcerative colitis. [1] [4] [3] The book was publicly praised by former Arkansas Razorback player Scotty Thurman, [1] and was covered by many local and national media outlets. [1] [3] [4]

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  2. ↑ Carver, Johnny; Carver, Steve; Hudson, William J. (2015). Ranketology (1st ed.). Johnny Carver. ISBN   9780578156361.
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