Johnny Carver (sports author)
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]
Biography[edit]
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[edit]
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]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Wilco, Daniel (July 28, 2015). "Rewriting History: Loving basketball even after your hoop dreams collapse", Sports Illustrated.
- ^ Carver, Johnny; Carver, Steve; Hudson, William J. (2015). Ranketology (1st ed.). Johnny Carver. ISBN 9780578156361.
- ^ a b c d e f g Bumbaca, Chris (August 1, 2015). "Olathe Northwest graduate pens NBA book, 'Ranketology'". Kansas City Star.
- ^ a b c d e f Demirel, Evin (July 9, 2015). "Johnny Carver: Aim High". SLAMonline.
- ^ a b c "EPIC Spotlight: Johnny Carver". Walton Today. February 3, 2015. Archived from the original on October 26, 2017. Retrieved October 21, 2017.
- ^ "Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference Johnny Carver". UWSP.edu.
- ^ Grelen, Jay (October 8, 2016). "Instead of running the basketball court, Johnny Carver may be running a franchise". AMP.
- ^ UWStevensPointCOLS (July 27, 2017), Great Lakes Analytics in Sports Conference 2017 :: Johnny Carver, retrieved October 21, 2017
External links[edit]
- Johnny Carver on Twitter