5 NBA Summer League Players Who Will Benefit from League’s New ‘Hustle Stats’

July 11th, 2015 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »
Good news, NBA fans. Quantifiable hustle is coming soon to a summer-league box score near you.

The league is rolling out a pilot statistical program at the Las Vegas Summer League that will chart various "hustle" categories that have been traditionally uncharted.

An official NBA release detailed the new program (via NBC Sports' Brett Pollakoff):

This year at Samsung NBA Summer League 2015, the league will be tracking five 'hustle stats.'  These statistics will be tracked in an attempt to quantify how a player’s effort and intensity, factors we know are important to team success but traditionally have not been formally tracked, affect the outcome of a game.  They will be distributed in-game to team personnel, media and broadcasters.

The five stats that will be monitored are: two-pointers contested, three-pointers contested, deflections, loose balls recovered and charges drawn.

Essentially, defenders will be awarded for challenging shots (even if they go in), making contact with the ball on non-field goal attempts (including a kick ball) and drawing an offensive foul call. Additionally, all players can be r ...

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