— -- Wholesale Hack-a-Shaq reform seems inevitable, but a vocal group of team executives and owners are determined to mount one last campaign against it, emboldened by the early postseason ...

At this year's All-Star break, Hack-a-Shaq fouls were being committed at four times the rate the NBA saw in 2014–15. That number ironed out to a two-and-a-half increase at season's end.

Wholesale Hack-a-Shaq reform seems inevitable, but a vocal group of team executives and owners are determined to mount one last campaign against it, emboldened by the early postseason exits of ...

Getty Image. NBA commissioner Adam Silver one year ago was “on the fence” about eliminating the Hack-A-Shaq rule, which allows opposing teams to take advantage of poor free-throw shooters by ...

The Hack-a-Shaq, employed on poor free throw shooters like DeAndre Jordan, makes NBA games longer and less entertaining. Kevin Pelton offers strategies to replace the fouling method.

This rule made it harder to keep using the Hack-A-Shaq method. Even with this change, the strategy showed how teams can use smart plans to exploit a player’s weaknesses.

If Mike Dunleavy and his staff in Portland spent their entire training camp teaching their pricey new forwards to whack-jack-smack-thwack-and-Hack-a-Shaq, well then that's just fine with Laker ...

With a number of players emerging as targets of the "Hack-a-Shaq" strategy in the thick of the playoffs, we take a look at its positives and negatives.

Teams used the Hack-A-Shaq strategy to slow the game down and stop the other team from scoring easy points. They knew that sending Shaquille to the free-throw line would not hurt them much because ...

Though T.J. Watt has 14 sacks in 12 appearances for the Pittsburgh Steelers during the 2023 NFL season, his defensive coordinator is still diving into the land of conspiracy theories—or creative ...