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Drew Cannon (born April 21, 1990) is an American statistician and sports writer who currently works on the Boston Celtics staff. As a child, Cannon was fascinated by sports statistics and, after reading the work of Bill James, began to design his own statistical projects to analyze sports. At age 15, he got an internship with well-known basketball scout Dave Telep. Over the next seven years, his research helped improve Telep's recruiting, while Telep worked to round out Cannon's personality. Cannon developed writing skills during college and his research was published by ''Basketball Prospectus'', ESPN, and Kenpom.com. He graduated from Duke in 2012 and was hired by Brad Stevens to do statistical analysis for the Butler basketball team. Cannon produced regular reports on how to increase the team's efficiency. The success of his recommendations won over doubters and led to multiple reporters describing Cannon as Butler's "secret weapon".〔〔 In July 2013, Stevens was hired by the Boston Celtics and brought Cannon with him. ==Early life== As a young child growing up in Raleigh, North Carolina, Drew Cannon was attracted to numbers, in particular sports statistics.〔 At age eight, he read through his father's Bill James baseball books. By thirteen, he was designing his own statistical projects to analyze sports - for example, comparing Negro League baseball players to Major Leaguers from the same time period. Cannon "probably had about 25 () projects going on" by age 15, recalled his father Jim Cannon. Cannon played sports as a child, but was not athletically gifted. He was the sixth man for his junior high team, but did not play for his high school team. Cannon has a younger sister, Maria, who is a senior at Wake Forest University, and a younger brother, Chris, who is a freshman at University of Tennessee.〔 At a casual lunch with friends in 2004, Jim Cannon met recruiting specialist Dave Telep. Soon the conversation turned to basketball. Telep had just finished reading ''Moneyball'' and was intrigued with the idea of bringing advanced statistics to basketball. "My mind (was) wide open about how we can apply () to basketball", Telep recalled.〔 After lunch Cannon approached Telep: "There's this kid in my house that I don't know what to do with. Can you help me?"〔 Telep met with Drew Cannon, then a 15-year-old sophomore in high school, and soon offered him an internship, paying $600 for the summer.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drew Cannon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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