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 ...

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 ...

When Mike Brey worked at Duke for eight seasons in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he recalled Mike Krzyzewski using “about 10 possessions” of zone defense over that span. They had a 1-2-2 zone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teams can go to a zone to change things up in a game. When the Cavs played Minnesota on Jan. 18, the Timberwolves were leading 29-20 after generating five consecutive shots from behind the arc and ...

Back in early December, the Miami Heat were struggling. Erik Spoelstra’s squad had a record of 10-14 and was in the early throes a six-game Western Conference road trip. Worse yet, the Heat were beset ...

Mac Jones and Brock Purdy both sliced up zone defenses this past season.

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 ...