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New stat-tracking coming to NBA summer league

Offiical Curtis Blair passes the ball to a player on the free-throw line during the second half of an NBA summer league basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) Offiical Curtis Blair passes the ball to a player on the free-throw line during the second half of an NBA summer league basketball game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, Wednesday, July 8, 2015, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

By Associated Press July 9, 2015 1 min read

LAS VEGAS (AP) – 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 – and in some cases, the NBA’s office in Secaucus, New Jersey – 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.