The NBA will test the one-free-throw rule, aimed at speeding up play, at upcoming Summer League contests, the league said Thursday.<\/p>\n
Under the rule, one free throw will be awarded for any foul that would typically result in one, two or three free throws under current NBA rules.<\/p>\n
That free throw would be worth the same total number of points as the free throws it replaces.<\/p>\n
During the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime, standard free throw rules will be in effect.<\/p>\n
The one-free-throw rule has been used in the developmental G League since the 2019-20 season to \u201cimprove game flow.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not clear if the rule could eventually be used in the NBA proper, although previous tweaks, including coaches\u2019 challenges, have been tested in the G League and Summer Leagues before they were adopted.<\/p>\n
Summer League play, in which all 30 teams field rosters of rookies, second-year players and G-League prospects, will take place July 3-19.<\/p>\n
The California Classic Summer League runs from Friday through Monday in San Francisco and Sacramento with seven teams taking part.<\/p>\n
Four teams will take part in the Salt Lake City Summer League on Saturday through Tuesday, and all 30 teams will field teams in the Las Vegas Summer League July 9-19.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s contests will also use a \u201cconnected\u201d basketball with an embedded sensor. The NBA says the ball will provide data to support future officiating applications such as last-touch out-of-bounds calls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA will test the one-free-throw rule, aimed at speeding up play, at upcoming Summer League contests, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,239206,105],"class_list":["post-522834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}