An hour or two after he finished up his player development work at Ball Arena on Wednesday, Spencer Jones was scribbling math equations on a whiteboard in Aurora.
Using NBA salaries as an example, he walked through the difference between mean and median to a handful of teenagers. Four players in a sample of five might make between $2 million and $4 million per year, he explained, but if the fifth is Nikola Jokic, the mean is no longer an accurate portrayal of the real average.
Jones is likely not a player you’ll hear about much this NBA season.