Michael Lewis's article, The No-Stats All-Star discusses how a defensive basketball player has terrible stats but whatever team he's on does significantly better and the opponent notably worse. To begin with basketball player Shane Battier is considered a "marginal" basketball player by some but always seems to be the reason whatever team he's on is winning, yet he's often discredited for it. To continue, Daryl Morey was hired by the rockets head coach (Shane Battier's team) to rethink the game; he was to take all the statistics and figure out a way to use them to their upper hand. To add on selfish and selfless players can both be found in the NBA, Battier is a prime example of a selfless player, he’s always one step ahead and is helping
