Last week, the NBA added even more data people can dive into at their leisure. Already armed with an arsenal of advanced statistics, the NBA added new defensive and hustle data figures to digest.
One of the hustle stats unveiled was box outs.
From the NBA.com article: ”The importance of boxing out an opponent has been drilled into basketball players from day one. When a shot goes up, don’t just stare at the ball and watch what happens, get a body on someone so you’re in position to secure the rebound in case the shot misses.