Last Updated on September 7, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake
Assists are generally worth a bit more than rebounds in basketball. Some evidence of this is to look at how a standard-scoring basketball fantasy league measures the value of assists and rebounds. An assist is worth 1.5 points and a rebound is worth 1.2 points. The reason those values are given is because experts have decided that is what values should be given to those stats. However, the definition of an assist has changed over the years to be more lenient in the sense that it has become easier to be awarded an assist. An assist used to have a strict definition of it needing to be a leading pass to a score by a teammate. But nowadays, a teammate can dribble the ball substantially more and create the shot substantially more and a player can still be awarded an assist. So, I would say that the value of those two things currently are roughly the same. A rebound should be valued roughly the same as an assist in basketball based on the 2024 rules of the game. And we’ll have to see what happens to the future of basketball. Maybe the definition of an assist will change again. The definition of a rebound is less likely to be altered because there isn’t much that can be changed about it; you either grabbed the rebound or you didn’t.