NBA approves rule changes on coach’s challenges and flopping for 2023-24 season

The NBA’s Board of Governors approved two rule changes for the upcoming season. One change allows coaches to have a second challenge if their first one is successful. The other change introduces a technical foul for flopping. Both changes were recommended by the NBA’s Competition Committee.

Coaches have long desired a change in the challenge rule, and this modification addresses that need.

Coaches who successfully challenge a call are given the opportunity to issueCoaches can make a second challenge if they successfully challenge a call. However, there is one condition. In order to make a challenge, the team must have a timeout. It’s important to note that even if a coach wins the first challenge, the team’s timeout will not be retained.

Players who intentionally try to deceive officials by exaggerating contact or committing acts that appear to cause officials to call a foul on another player will receive a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul. This foul will not be counted as a personal foulPlayers who engage in flopping, which is defined as “a physical act that reasonably appears to be intended to cause the officials to call a foul on another player,” will receive a non-unsportsmanlike technical. This penalty will not count as a personal foul and will not result in ejection from the game.

The opposing team will receive a free throw, but possession will remain the same. Flopping violationsOpposing team receives a free throw, possession remains the same, and flopping violations cannot be reviewed by a coach’s challenge. They may be added to a call during a review of a different play.

Officials have the option to interrupt live play in order to penalize a player for flopping, or they can wait until the next available opportunity to make the call.

Floppers will face a fine of $2,000, and the fines will increase for repeat offenders. The flopping rule will be tested for one year.

The new rule changes were unanimously recommended by the NBA’s Competition Committee, which includes players, representatives from the National Basketball Players Association, coaches, governors, team basketball executives, and referees.The NBA’s Competition Committee, consisting of players, representatives from the National Basketball Players Association, coaches, governors, team basketball executives, and referees, unanimously recommended both rule changes.