As a data-driven storyteller raised in Chicago’s undercurrents, I’ve seen how sports contracts are sanitized into visual illusions. This piece dissects the $24M deal between Shams Charania and the Heat—not as a win, but as a quiet surrender. Using Python and Tableau, I mapped his 40% three-point rate not as brilliance, but as algorithmic control. The real game isn’t played on court—it’s coded in spreadsheets. You’re not watching basketball. You’re being watched by it.