NEW YORK — For better or worse, the NBA has turned into a math equation. The best teams — the Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers and Oklahoma City Thunder — not only take and make a lot of 3s, but ...

Ja Morant is back and has Brook Lopez turned around. It’s November, and the electric point guard is leading the fast break in the third quarter against a porous Milwaukee Bucks transition defense. The ...

Fair or not, the predominant narrative surrounding the 2024-25 NBA season has been that it has been kind of boring. Or, perhaps more broadly, that the NBA has been trending downward for some time, and ...

The Dallas Mavericks have a major 3-point problem, and one possible solution could be trading for former Mavs sharpshooter Tim Hardaway Jr. The team's deep shooting has been a major concern, as Dallas ...

Some people really don't like that the Boston Celtics are shooting 51 3-pointers a game. Some people are upset that the league-wide 3-point rate, after appearing to peak in 2021-22, has hit a new high ...

On the 70th anniversary of the first basketball game played in Allen Fieldhouse, the Kansas Jayhawks suffered a rarity — a loss in their tradition-rich arena. Embracing modern-day basketball which, of ...

Welcome to a new series called IAQ — Infrequently Asked Question. In these articles, I hope to address basketball queries people may have that maybe they’re a little too embarrassed to ask. Maybe they ...

But there’s a reverse effect to 3-point variance, too: miss too many of them, and you're more likely to take a beating. Even with giant leads, the Celtics have prioritized early-clock 3s in their ...

The Chicago Sky are the worst 3-point shooting team in the WNBA. They sit last in the league in both attempts (14.5) and makes (4.5) per game and are 11th in percentage (30.7%), ahead of only the ...

With March Madness officially upon us, the importance of the three-point line is also heightened. Since the three-point line was established in college basketball for the 1986-87 season, we have ...