There’s beauty in the Pistons being a physical, gritty team in a city like Detroit, and I certainly have bias towards the ...

The Denver Nuggets' two-man game with Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray has long been the staple of their offense, but without increasing their rate of three-point shooting, it may no longer be enough to ...

Thirty-five games into a season, it's fair to wonder if statistical trends are more than just trends if they actually tell the big-picture story of a team. For the Wizards, it might be time to start ...

Sixers president Daryl Morey was one of the early adopters of analytics in the NBA. His Houston Rockets helped usher in a three-point revolution that completely changed offensive shot diets across the ...

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Two recent NBA datapoints: At halftime of the Mavericks-Warriors game on Sunday evening, the visiting team led by a score of 81-74. Two days earlier, the Bulls beat the visiting Charlotte Hornets ...

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 ...

When the Hornets and Bulls combined to brick a record 75 three-pointers last Friday, analysts and fans alike were quick to blame the Warriors for the volume of three-pointers in the modern NBA. With ...

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 ...

Adam Silver has heard concerns about the volume of three-pointers NBA players are taking and he plans to make change. "As stewards of the game, Joe Dumars leads our competition committee here, we will ...