Alex Carter

Courtside News publishes NBA reference data: draft results for every class since the first draft, ownership of future picks including protections and swap rights, team salary cap sheets, luxury tax positions and player contract terms. This byline covers the compilation, checking and correction of that material.

Salary and contract figures come from Spotrac on a daily refresh. Draft results are compiled from published league records. Pick protections and swap conditions are recorded as written rather than paraphrased, because the exact wording decides which club ends up selecting. Where a figure is missing or a source is unreachable, the page shows nothing rather than an estimate.

The written summaries that sit alongside the tables are generated from the stored values by fixed rules, so the prose cannot drift away from the data beneath it. Automation collects and maintains the datasets; responsibility for what appears on the site rests here, not with any tool used to build it.