LAS VEGAS (AP) β The NBA is going to try to measure hustle.
For the first time, all 67 games in the NBA Summer League at Las Vegas will have so-called “hustle stats” tracked. The league will chart 2-pointers contested, 3-pointers contested, deflections, loose balls recovered and charges taken.
Those numbers will all go into a formula to determine which players hustled most in any given game, and will be available in real time.
Much like referees using headsets to talk with one another β and in some cases, the NBA’s office in Secaucus, New Jersey β in games this summer, the hustle-stat-tracking project is a pilot program and likely wouldn’t be added to the regular-season repertoire until at least the 2016-17 season.
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AP Basketball Writer Jon Krawczynski and AP Sports Writer Kyle Hightower contributed to this report.
