NBA teams win sentimental, found researchers at the University of California at Berkeley

 All the experts were talking about LeBron James is fighting phenomenal personal exploits Dwyane Wade and Dirk Nowitzki recovery flu tough as arguments to the NBA Finals.

Another interesting element was discovered by the Wall Street Journal, found the analysis of the first three games of the series with some of the findings of three researchers at the University of California-Berkeley, after which one of the key elements of a successful team is based on the camaraderie of playing.

The study,  tactile communication, collaboration and performance: an ethological study of the NBA  was titled, was written by Michael W. Kraus, Huang Cassy and roofs Keltner. After review of the matches of the 2008/09 season came to the conclusion that to be good teams much more convenient than harm. Teams whose players have played most often were more cooperative, he better and won more games, they said.

Although there is no evidence that the NBA team to play their way to victory, the two best teams in the study, completed the Boston Celtics and Lakers this season with two of the best in three NBA records and won the NBA Championship .


During the first three games of the finals, the winners of touch, were the Mavericks, the newspaper reports.

The Mavericks, with 250 strokes, caressing, touching or stroke are almost twice as sentimental as heat, only 134 cases had to televised address. In the three games, the Mavericks were 82% more high-five from the heat.