New NBA rule change to ensure Lebron's Championship this year.

[Animal Thug]

What the hell

. This is isnt right...just hurt the integrityof basketball.

Though many people wont even notice the change, its still points the NBA in a different direction..

 

[kash55]

Stop freaking out...you guys know this ALWAYS happens right...it's even in the article.

In March, NBA vice president of referee operations Joe Borgia told TrueHoop's Henry Abbott that referees had long been instructed to ignore the rulebook on this point and allow two steps.

 

[erascism]

I like the rule change. It will allow more creativity in the game. Players are practicing this as we speak trying to freak it every which way possible.

 

[classy freshman]

Originally Posted by PJ and Bompton

Originally Posted by Infyrno23

This is just damn crazy

traveling is the most unnatural thing you can do on the ball court... and double dribbiling... its almost like my body wont let me do it.
Lebron gets to run to the basket without even dribbiling now

oh and watch D Wade ABUSE this

i knew i wasn't the only one

 

[clutchshooter]

Not

Basketball

Anymore .

 

[youngtriz]

 

[senatorjeffsmith]

Lebron haters compiling an Excel spreadsheet with excuses for the Cavs winning the 2010 NBA championship.

It comes with the territory.

 

[pr0phecy718]

I'm going to have to get used to it now

 

[f3djam]

i know brons gonna use it, but damn this is just ammo against him during goat discussions later

bron won a ship 7th year---yea but the nba had to make a new rule for him to win

this is bad

 

[the minister]

Originally Posted by pr0phecy718

I'm going to have to get used to it now

let me get that ps3 though.

 

[mitchellicious]

I'm confused. Is this allowing two steps after they've caught the ball but before they start dribbling? So in theory LeBron could get the ball at thethree point line tuck it under his arm and take two steps to the basket without dribbling?

Someone please explain.

 

[da doc03]

Originally Posted by YoungTriz

 

[Bonafide]

 

[big j 33]

Originally Posted by kash55

Stop freaking out...you guys know this ALWAYS happens right...it's even in the article.

In March, NBA vice president of referee operations Joe Borgia told TrueHoop's Henry Abbott that referees had long been instructed to ignore the rulebook on this point and allow two steps.

Yeah that's the point I was going to make. My biggest problem is consistency in the game. Either call it a travel or change the rules, andin this case they're changing the rules. I'd rather they just start to call travels, but it's the way the game has been going.

 

[trunks206]

Wooooooow. I dont even know what to say....

 

[leroythegreat38]

Originally Posted by YoungTriz

The look on his face as he takes off

 

[ctdaprince]

Originally Posted by knightngale

Can it get any more obvious?

This means Lebron will be able to take 5 to 6 steps now or not even dribble at all

i know right

the ball aint even gonna hit the floor. hejust gonna glide right to the hole

 

[CP1708]

Still won't matter, he won't win nothin.

 

[MVP]

HB dive will be updated in Bron's specific plays on the next 2K10 update

 

[yungmatt]

someone post the article for me

 

[jamesonnt]

yet another reason why college bball > anything.

 

[westcoastsfinest]

oh c'mon stern can you make it more obvious you want Lebron to win it all?

 

[pharelfor3]

Crab people

 

[CP1708]

[h2]NBA to alter traveling rules[/h2]
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ESPN.com news services

NBA players will be able to take two steps before they have to stop, pass or shoot this season.

The NBA has put into writing a rule allowing players on the move to gather the ball, after driving or catching it, and then take two steps. Throughout NBAhistory, the rulebook said players could take one step.

The new rule reads, in part: "A player who receives the ball while he is progressing or upon completion of a dribble, may take two steps in coming to astop, passing or shooting the ball."

It is believed to be the first time any league, at any level anywhere in the world, has explicitly allowed two steps.

In March, NBA vice president of referee operations Joe Borgia told TrueHoop'sHenry Abbott that referees had long been instructed to ignore the rulebook on this point and allow two steps.

On a conference call with reporters earlier this week, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson told Abbott: "Based onJoe's comments, when you had a conversation with Joe, we did in fact tweak the language on traveling in this year's book."

Enforcement of the one-step rule has been hit-or-miss at every level of basketball. Archival footage shows NBA greats, from Magic Johnson and Pete Maravichto Bob Cousy and Julius Erving, getting away with two steps. Borgia, whose father was also an NBA official, said he cannot remember a time when NBA refereesdid not allow two steps.

Others insist allowing two steps represents an NBA strategy to aid scorers and make the league more exciting. Legendary point guard and current Knickbroadcaster Walt "Clyde" Frazier says the league relaxed traveling standards some time ago to increase scoring.

"They go 20 feet to the hoop without dribbling one time," Frazier said. "This is what they are getting away with nowadays. Some of them areso obvious. You'll hear me on the broadcast saying 'That's a travel! Watch the feet!' Wilt [Chamberlain] would have averaged 100 points a gameif they had let him do that.

"When guys couldn't put up points, about when they changed the hand-check rule, they made things easier for scorers, because these playerscan't shoot like we did," Frazier said. "Those few years when the Knicks were good [the early 1990s] -- that wasn't prettybasketball."

Whether or not this will affect play on the court remains to be seen. Referees have long been instructed to allow two steps and in interviews with NBAplayers last season there was some confusion about the rule. But most said they thought they were allowed to take two steps.

ESPN.com TrueHoop blogger Henry Abbott contributed to this story.

 

[Chester McFloppy]

Originally Posted by SenatorJeffSmith

Lebron haters compiling an Excel spreadsheet with excuses for the Cavs winning the 2010 NBA championship.

It comes with the territory.

Quoted and bookmarked for future reference.