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The 'hot hand' is a real basketball phenomenon – but only some players have the ability to go on these basket-making streaks

  • Written by Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Associate Professor of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
imageKevin Durant is one of the NBA players who shows the ability to go on hot streaks.AP Photo/Seth Wenig

March Madness is here, and basketball fans are making predictions: Who will be the Cinderella story of the college tournament? Which teams will make a run to the Final Four? And of course, which player is going to get “hot” and carry...

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