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2024-25 NBA Draft Guide: Punt Strategy

By Keston Paul Published October 14, 2024 Updated August 19, 2025 1 min read

Punting has become even more popular in recent years as we hear discussions about team builds, player pairings, and all of that good stuff. I’m here to break down punting into its simplest terms so we can have a complete idea of what it is, its goals and how we can use it effectively.

What is punting?


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Keston Paul

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Keston majored in Biology and minored in Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies (U.W.I.), St. Augustine. Hailing from Trinidad & Tobago, Kes grew up loving cricket, then football (soccer, not NFL) & never missed a Barça game in the 2010s. Later on, he grew obsessed with basketball/fantasy basketball & unfortunately claims to be a Sixers fan for some reason.

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