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2024-25 NBA Draft Guide: Pace Report

By Keston Paul Published September 27, 2024 Updated August 25, 2026 1 min read
2024-25 NBA Draft Guide: Pace Report

By Keston Paul

Last Updated on August 25, 2026 9:42 am by André Lemos | Published: September 27, 2024

Pace is a useful metric for Fantasy Basketball because it is the number of possessions a team uses in a game. More possessions should equate to more opportunities to collect stats. Last year, we decided to include offensive rating as a part of this article as a way of analyzing the efficiency of those possessions. Some teams may have a slow pace, but still be near the top of the league in offensive rating. The opposite is also true.
There are a number of factors that affect the outcome of a team’s pace and offensive rating at the end of a season, but I am going to do my best with what we know right now to get an idea of which teams are likely to improve or decline in these metrics.

New 2024-25 Head Coaches 

Brian Keefe
Head Coach, Washington Wizards
 

2023-24 Coaches: Wes Unseld Jr. (43 games), Brian Keefe (39 games)
2023-24 Pace:  103.07 (1st)
2023-24 Offensive Rating:  110.2 (25th) 

 2024-25 Head Coach: Brian Keefe
Expectation: Similar Pace, Similar Offense 

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Keston Paul

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Keston majored in Biology and minored in Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies (U.W.I.), St. Augustine. Hailing from Trinidad & Tobago, Kes grew up loving cricket, then football (soccer, not NFL) & never missed a Barça game in the 2010s. Later on, he grew obsessed with basketball/fantasy basketball & unfortunately claims to be a Sixers fan for some reason.

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