The NBA Heave Rule
All Up Innes
Josh Innes
2.4 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, let's see what this one says. |
| 0:02.9 | Headline reads, explaining the NBA Summer League's new Heave Rule. |
| 0:09.6 | Now, I have no idea what this is, and I will be reading this for the first time as I read it to you. |
| 0:15.5 | But I'm going to guess this has something to do with the fact that NBA players are no longer taking three quarter-length |
| 0:24.1 | shots or half-court shots at the end of quarters in fear of it hurting their shooting |
| 0:30.4 | percentage. If you watch, like you'll see a guy shoot it just after the clock expire so he gets, you know, the opportunity to shoot it and see if it goes in. |
| 0:42.2 | But the result doesn't matter. |
| 0:44.1 | Therefore, when it misses, you know, 99 times out of 100, then this person will not see their shooting percentage impact. |
| 0:52.1 | That would be my guess. |
| 0:55.1 | And if that's the case, if we're having to build in rules |
| 0:58.0 | to get guys to shoot half-quarter or half-court shots at the end of a quarter, |
| 1:03.5 | that's really sad that we're making that a rule or rewarding them in some way for attempting a shot. |
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