Call it the Ownership Credibility Index. We do. We just made it up. In the world of basketball analytics, it’s not as big as WARP or PIE or EFG, but it matters big time to fans.
What we mean by OCI? It measures an NBA ownership group’s willingness to spend money, to gain credibility not just among fans or their fellow owners, but among free agents as well.
Here’s one data point: How many NBA team properties has an ownership group invested in? Only four groups currently control an NBA franchise, a WNBA franchise, a G League franchise and an NBA2K franchise.