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(Again, if you can’t get to the interactive visualization, try a different browser.) Another doozy: an interactive chart that maps out each team’s shooting percentage allowed by position on the court.Then you can drag each player’s dot around on the graph. Once you get to the interactive graphic, pick a team. You can read the intro on that page, and then click on the link for the interactive graph (if it doesn’t work, try a different browser - it doesn’t seem to like Firefox on a Mac). This one’s a doozy: a page that shows how each team’s assists are distributed from player to player.In addition to being entertaining, it makes it really easy to compare two players. This is completely awesome: Players depicted as little caricature figures with each body part size-adjusted to reflect a certain statistic.

And here’s the all-star voting broken down by team.

Here’s another word cloud, based on this year’s all-star voting.

This page generates word clouds based on who played the most minutes, all-time, for each NBA team.

Not all of the Hoopism infographics are interactive, but just about all of them are clever and engaging. The blue dots represent - well, shit, you’re smart people, you can read the explanation on the page for yourselves. There’s a similar page devoted to the NBA’s greatest shots. And if you click on that dot, you get a YouTube video clip of that dunk (except for the gray dots, for which no video is available). When you mouse over one of the dots, you get info on that dunk attempt. Orange dots are successful dunk attempts blue ones are unsuccessful.

Each dot represents a dunk attempt by a player in a given year’s contest, plotted according to its score as given by the judges. The most impressive thing on the site, at least that I’ve found so far, is this page devoted to the NBA slam dunk contest. Even if you don’t care about the NBA - I don’t care a whole lot about it myself - you’ll like this, trust me. It’s one of the most interesting and enjoyable sports sites I’ve seen in a long, long time. Now reader Adam Hainsfurther has pointed me toward a basketball site called Hoopism, which features a bunch of enormously sophisticated NBA-centric infographics, many of which are interactive. Last Friday I did an entry on some simple Super Bowl infographics.