Redefining Basketball Positions with Unsupervised Learning

The NBA Finals are over. The last of the champagne bottles have been emptied and the confetti has begun to settle. Now that the Golden State Warriors have finished unleashing their otherworldly dominance on the basketball world, I thought it would be a good time to wrap up a hardwood-focused machine learning project. The Warriors are prime exhibitors of a new trend in the sport of basketball, a trend that advocates pass-first, ballet-beautiful movement over dominance through individual greatness. As such, traditional positions like'point guard' and'center' really don't seem to apply to their players anymore.