{"id":146537,"date":"2025-09-16T04:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146537\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:14:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:14:05","slug":"why-warriors-steph-curry-will-benefit-from-nbas-3-point-heave-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/146537\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Warriors’ Steph Curry will benefit from NBA’s 3-point ‘heave’ rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The greatest shooter to ever touch a basketball should be among the top beneficiaries of a new rule implemented by the NBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The league has now decided that any shot taken in the final three seconds of each of the first three quarters will not be counted as a team shot attempt \u2013 not to any individual \u2013 as long as it is taken from at least 36 feet away from the basket.<\/p>\n

Of course, any makes will be attributed to the individual player.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So why would this help Curry more than the average player? In a world where many NBA athletes are wary of lobbing up a low-percentage \u2018Hail Mary\u2019 that could affect their shooting efficiency, the Warriors\u2019 superstar has distinguished himself from the pack.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curry has long been one of the few superstars willing to let it fly at the buzzer. According to the Associated Press<\/a>, Curry led the NBA in made heaves with four of them.<\/p>\n

According to the NBA\u2019s official stat-tracking website, Curry<\/a> made 5 of 14 shots from at least 35 feet, but just 1 of 7 when limited to just beyond 40 feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is one of the few places on the court that Curry, who is the NBA\u2019s all-time leader in 3-point makes, shoots poorly from.<\/p>\n

Over the past five seasons, Curry has made just 2 of 40 shots from at least 40 feet, most of those being desperation heaves at the end of quarters.<\/p>\n

Though that is a tiny percentage of the 3,850 triples he has attempted over that time span, they still account for one percent of attempted 3-pointers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the new rules were in place, that would bump up his 3-point FG% up an entire point, to 41.02% (1,563 of 3,810).<\/p>\n

Curry will get a chance to enjoy the new rule on Oct. 21, when the Warriors travel to the Lakers for their regular-season opener.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Originally Published: September 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO \u2013 The greatest shooter to ever touch a basketball should be among the top beneficiaries of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,56495,485,5552,56492,67399,3914,590,85085,85082,6113,85086,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-146537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-bay-area","12":"tag-california","13":"tag-golden-state-warriors","14":"tag-inside-sports","15":"tag-keywee","16":"tag-latest-headlines","17":"tag-nba","18":"tag-peninsula","19":"tag-pm-report","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-county","22":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}