Johnny Carver

Jonathan Richard Carver (born October 6, 1995) is an American sports author and basketball analytics contributor, best known for his book Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player.

Biography

Carver was born in Shawnee, Kansas, the son of Bradley and Liza Carver. Carver graduated from Olathe Northwest High School in 2014 after previously attending Shawnee Mission Northwest High School. His brother, Steve, broke his father's record He served as a basketball operations intern for the Indiana Pacers in the summer of 2016. He graduated from the Sam M. Walton College of Business in 2017.

Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player Ranketology: A New Way of Determining Basketball's Greatest Player released in January 2015, when Carver was a freshman at the University of Arkansas. The book is based primarily on an algorithm that he created to determine the best player in NBA history. He began writing the book in high school after he lost his playing career to ulcerative colitis. The book was publicly praised by former Arkansas Razorback player Scotty Thurman, and was covered by many local and national media outlets.