The NBA will implement a new change for the 2025-26 season with unsuccessful end-of-period heaves now being recorded as a missed field-goal attempt for the team, not the player.

Under the new rule, which was finalized at the league's board of governors meeting Wednesday, those long heaves will no longer impact an individual player's percentages.

Even more long-range shots are expected from players this season, which was behind motivation of the change and the league testing it at the Summer League in July. The league's competition committee has been in support of the adjustment in recent months, too.

For stat-keeping purposes, the NBA will tell teams that any shot taken within the final three seconds of the first three quarters and is launched from at least 36 feet away on any play that

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