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