Jim Boeheim might have coached more possessions of zone defense than any coach in college basketball history. The 2-3 zone helped win him a national championship in 2003 and reach four other Final ...

Get notified of the most viral NBA stories via Google! NBA teams do not use zone all the time, but many use it during short parts of a game. They often switch to zone after a timeout or during a key ...

Not only is the Miami Heat using zone defense more than any other team in the NBA this season, it’s using more zone defense than any other team in recent history. As the Heat works through some early ...

The Athletic has live coverage of the WNBA Finals featuring the Las Vegas Aces vs. New York Liberty The New York Liberty played 88 possessions of zone defense during the regular season. That accounted ...

The Heat looked overmatched in Game 1 of the Finals, but they Heated their way to victory in Game 2. It didn't even require a big performance out of Jimmy Butler for the Heat to hand the Nuggets their ...

A look at how teams are playing against zone defenses. John Schuhmann A couple of years ago, a zone defense, unless it was being played by the Dallas Mavericks, looked completely bizarre in an NBA ...

The Heat and Celtics have a ton of history with each other, which should make the 2023 Eastern Conference Finals an interesting series from a strategic standpoint. The Celtics knocked the Heat out in ...

The Miami Heat is in the zone — literally. The Heat hasn’t played as much zone defense as it did last regular season, when it set a new modern-day NBA record for most zone possessions played in a ...

The 2023 NBA Finals features an unlikely matchup between the No. 1 seed in the Western Conference, the Denver Nuggets, and the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference, the Miami Heat. There are all sorts ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony East is an Indiana-based writer who covers the Pacers and Fever. INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Pacers lost to the Milwaukee ...

You know the old saying of necessity being the mother of invention? Wherever you see zone defense in the NBA, you can usually find in the same place a man-to-man defense that wasn’t working. “They ...