Report: NBA to implement new rules forbidding non-basketball moves to draw fouls

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nba-rules-non-basketball-move-draw-fouls-james-harden-045303266.html




Report: NBA to implement new rules forbidding non-basketball moves to draw fouls



Jack Baer·Writer
Tue, July 27, 2021, 9:53 PM



The NBA is officially attempting to eliminate some of its most embarrassing foul calls.

According to The Athletic's Shams Charania, the NBA has decided to move forward with new rules to reduce the use of non-basketball moves to draw fouls.

NBA officials will reportedly be trained to identify and penalize some of the following non-basketball moves, per Charania:

launching into defender

abruptly veering off path

kicking leg at abnormal angle

hooks defender with an off-arm

If an offensive player is deemed to have made more than marginal contact (offensive player's contact impacts the defender's speed, quickness, balance, or rhythm), the play will be called an offensive foul. Marginal contact will remain a no-call.

The change had been previously reported to be in the works last month, though it's unclear whether the NBA Board of Governors has voted the change into the rulebook.

The news figures to be a breath of fresh air for fans sick of seeing NBA shooters bizarrely flail in mid-air with the hope of drawing a call, a practice that has become increasingly common in the modern NBA. No player is more infamous for the practice James Harden, who was predictably the butt of several jokes on Twitter after the report.


Bob
MY NOTE:  Now all we need is for the refs to get this memo and actually call the games accordingly.  Remember when you weren't going to be allowed to do the big sweep of your arms to draw a shooting foul when a defender stuck his arm out?  The refs still kept calling them.  This is going to make for a choppy next season.  Not only will the players and coaches and trainers have to learn what this means the refs also will need some time to gain consistency in how they call them, which will make it harder for the players to understand.


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A lot of offensive players use these tactics to pick up fouls.

The game will be much fairer and fun to watch if the refs consistently make these calls. One can hope!

Marcus Smart suddenly became very valuable! The big men will suffer offensively. It will be interesting to see how these will get called.

With the quality of referee's this past year, I truly question of they are capable of picking up these moves and calling the fouls, especially on "star" players who live off of some of these moves....James Harden???

This will be interesting to watch next season