The NBA might be taking a page out of Major League Baseball’s playbook by shortening games with rule changes.<\/p>\n
The league announced Thursday that it would be implementing a ‘one free throw rule’ during its annual Summer League.<\/p>\n
The rule, which has been used in the NBA G League since the 2019-20 season, dictates that any foul worth two or three points will result in one free throw attempt worth its respective amount of points.<\/p>\n
For example, if a player is fouled on a three-point jump shot which does not go in, that player will shoot only one free throw shot worth three points if made.<\/p>\n
The rule does not apply in the last two minutes of the fourth quarter or in overtime. The free-throw process goes back to standard NBA rules at that time.<\/p>\n
This rule is meant to “improve game flow” the NBA added in its announcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA might be taking a page out of Major League Baseball’s playbook by shortening games with rule…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-775970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}