The NBA’s ‘Heaves’ Rule: Game-Changer or Just Another Myth?
Each week during the 2025-26 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
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Fact or Fiction: The NBA’s new ‘heaves’ rule is working
“Heaves” sounds bad, like something from college that was decidedly uncool.
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Heaves, in the NBA, are defined as any field-goal attempt from 36 or more feet in the final three seconds of any of the first three quarters, so long as the play began in the backcourt. These, friends, are heaves …
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