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The NBA’s ‘Heaves’ Rule: Game-Changer or Just Another Myth?

The NBA's 'Heaves' Rule: Game-Changer or Just Another Myth?

Nobody could be so soft, right, Payton?

Well, the early returns from the NBA on a new rule aimed at heaves reveal a different story.

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The league in September instituted a new rule that removed heaves from consideration for a player’s shooting percentage, though they remain as team field-goal attempts. Unless, of course, he makes it. Then it counts on his statistical résumé. It sits there on his stat shelf, then, like a participation trophy.

In other words, every player is free now to heave away, knowing that every attempt from 36-plus feet in the final three seconds of the first, second or third quarter will only count for him as a make and not against him as a miss. They no longer have to be yellow bellies who fear fractions of a percentage point.

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