[Charania] The NBA will implement a new change for the 2025-26 season: unsuccessful end-of-period heaves will now be recorded as a missed field-goal attempt for the team, not the player, sources tell ESPN. Those long heaves will no longer impact an individual player’s percentages.

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1. Who was the biggest offender of this?

2. This helps my pro Jokic agenda

3. ABOUT DAMN TIME

4. Steph gonna rejoin the 50-40-90 club with this rule

5. Pritchard FG% about to drop.

6. The NBA is really tackling what’s been on everyone’s mind recently

7. Oh shit, league ain’t ready for Parking Lot P

8. Luka 3pt% about to increase 📈

9. I used to think this was a good idea … but now I don’t

   It’s super selfish to not take a heave … Once Russ won MVP, players care way too much about stats now

10. Players will still try to game it by refusing to step past the half court line so that the FGA won’t count.

11. The Nikola Jokić Rule

12. What happens if they make the shot? Does it count as a 3pt make still for the player or counts just for the team somehow?

13. lmao NBA players are such babies

14. Does it help your percentage if you make it, or only the teams?

15. You’ve got to be kidding me. This is what the NBA cares about?

16. This is so wimpy

17. Cowards rejoice.

18. Gone is the test of moral character that came with seeing how committed to winning you were if you would take a shot you were almost certainly going to miss and hurt your stats at the slim chance of giving your team points or if you would be a coward and deliberately let the clock run out before heaving it.

19. Silly.

    Either care enough about your team to take the heaves or don’t. This shouldn’t be necessary.

20. Steph Curry heaves will now be done by all, but far less accurately.

21. Didn’t someone on the Nuggets have a perfect shooting night except for this maybe 10 years back?

22. this should be applied retroactively. imo not the hardest thing to do.

23. I always go on Basketball reference and see a retired center shoot 43% on 3s one season and deduce it’s from heaves

24. NBA endorsing Stat inflation

25. I wonder what the numbers would look like if they retroactively applied this rule.

    Players who heave a lot would have their FG% affected more but probably not very significantly still.

    Jokic is the one I want to know these numbers for most

26. Honestly I liked it as a good litmus test of who cares about winning versus who is worried about their stats.

27. Why though? Player takes a shot, misses, and it doesn’t count towards their FGP? Seems very gimmicky.

28. LeBron bullied Silver into making this change

29. Anything to help these diva’s and their numbers these days…

30. “unsuccessful heaves” — does that mean successful shots WILL boost a player’s stats? So they can only gain?

31. It was always ridiculous that players wouldn’t shoot bc of this

    Proves their contract and stats matter more than the win

32. Soft

33. Now guys will hold to force it for a no risk chance to increase their percentage

34. games gone

35. What if they make them? Still a team FG?

36. I will forever blame KD and LeBron for making this necessary lol. This should help a lot though.

37. What a dumb change. A shot is a shot.

38. Low key dislike this change. If you can’t risk taking a small hit to your precious fg% then your team doesn’t deserve the points.

39. This is so pathetic that they even have to do this.

    They shouldn’t count the makes for the individual player either then.

    Players used to heave shots without thinking for decades because it was the smart play.

40. Steph be like “That’s great, but I still get credit for the makes right?”

41. NBA is the softest league 😂

42. Ridiculous this influenced the players tbh