Each week during the 202526 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. Last week: We can still be mad about the Luka Dončić trade after the Nico Harrison firing Fact or Fiction: The NBA's new 'heaves' rule is working "Heaves" sounds bad, like something from college that was decidedly uncool.
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.
Last week: We can still be mad about the Luka Dončić trade after the Nico Harrison firing
Fact or Fiction: The NBA's new 'heaves' rule is working
"Heaves" sounds bad, like something from college that was decidedly uncool.
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 ...
Source: "AOL Sports"
Source: Sports
Published: November 21, 2025 at 05:28PM on Source: PRIMO MAG
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