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Recent player tracking technology provides new information about basketball game performance. The aim of this study was to (i) compare the game performances of all-star and non all-star basketball players from the National Basketball Association (NBA), and (ii) describe the different basketball game performance profiles based on the different game roles. Archival data were obtained from all 2013-2014 regular season games (n = 1230). The variables analyzed included the points per game, minutes played and the game actions recorded by the player tracking system. To accomplish the first aim, the performance per minute of play was analyzed using a descriptive discriminant [...]

In the last 10 years, many papers addressed the performance profile of basketball players during match-play. All these studies were synthetized in a recently published systematic review. It has been shown that during live playing time across 40-min matches, male and female basketball players travel 5–6 km at average physiological intensities above lactate threshold and 85% of maximal heart rate. Games are mainly characterized by a live time / stoppage time ratio of 1:1. Basketball games are characterized by a decrease of the activity demand towards the end of the game due to possible fatigue-related mechanisms and tactical strategies, which increases [...]