NBA players can now fire up those end-of-quarter heaves from deep without their shooting percentages being adversely affected. The league has approved a change in the way statistics on those shots are recorded, which could spur players to take more heaves ...

The league has approved a change which could spur players to take more deep heaves with hopes of a miracle make. Tim Reynolds | The Associated Press Nikola Jokić buries the ridiculous one handed buzzer beater before the half. NEW YORK (AP) — NBA players ...

The Defensive Player of the Year conversation starts and probably ends with Victor Wembanyama. Let's get the obvious out of the way quickly. Ask 100 NBA observers to name the league's best defender and 90 of them probably start with San Antonio's enormous ...

The NBA is set to implement a new rule during the 2025-26 season that will allow players to attempt end-of-quarter shots from long distances without impacting individual statistics. The league announced that beginning this season, shots taken from beyond ...

Nobody else has dove in on offensive rebounding to the extent the Rockets have, with their massive 38.5 percent offensive rebound rate after an offseason spent adding ever more size to go with their already formidable frontcourt. But in a copycat NBA, this could be the latest Houston-initiated math hack that ends up widely imitated.

This fall, basketball curmudgeons purists could have a whole new reason to complain about the modern NBA. As 3-point attempts have steadily risen over the past decade (from an average of 22.4 per game in 2014-15 to a record 37.6 last season), so too have ...