My name is Ben Falk, I'm the Basketball Analytics Manager for the Portland Trail Blazers. (If you've seen the movie or read the book "Moneyball", that's the kind of thing we do - attempting to apply statistical analysis and evidence based reasoning to give us an edge when trading or drafting players and making coaching decisions.) We're always on the lookout for people with the right mix of programming/computer skills and interest in basketball and the NBA. I figured this would be a good place to post to try and find those who have that specific overlap of skills and interest.
If you are one of those people we are potentially offering an internship or a part-time position, depending on what works for both of us. You would be working closely with the scouting and coaching staffs as well as our analytics team to help improve our processes. Living in/moving to Portland is not required, and we can work out details like that once we've determined you're a good fit.
If interested, please drop me a note explaining your skills and interest level and I'll be in touch. You can email me at basketballanalytics [at] trailblazers [dot] com.
I'm happy to answer questions in the comments below.
Thanks, Ben