BOSTON — While other players around the NBA opt out of taking end-of-quarter heaves, Payton Pritchard has been fearless in those scenarios all season. Even when there’s less than a second left on the ...

The NBA will implement a rule change in the upcoming season to record missed end-of-period heaves as team field goal attempts rather than individual player attempts. Because the reclassification means ...

"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 a quarter, so ...

Shams 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 ...