The NBA’s Board of Governors voted this week to make the in-game flopping penalty a everlasting a part of the league guidelines, based on a press launch. The rule, which expenses the offending participant with a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul and offers the opposing group a free throw try, was adopted forward of the 2023/24 season on a one-year trial foundation and can stay in place going ahead.
The Board of Governors additionally authorised a tweak to the tiebreaker guidelines for the NBA Cup (in-season event), eradicating additional time scoring for the needs of the purpose differential and complete factors scored tiebreakers.
There have been situations final season wherein it will have benefited the profitable group to play for additional time – the place it may construct an even bigger margin of victory – quite than attempting to win in regulation by a smaller margin. That received’t be the case beneath the brand new guidelines, as an NBA Cup group-stage sport that goes to additional time will end in a degree differential of zero for each groups, no matter how the additional interval performs out.
Listed here are a number of extra odds and ends from across the basketball world:
- Anthony Gill is drawing curiosity from a pair of EuroLeague groups, based on Alessandro Maggi of Sportando, who says that Barcelona and Anadolu Efes are eyeing the veteran free agent ahead. Gill has spent the previous 4 seasons with the Wizards, showing in 179 common season video games throughout that point, nearly solely as a reserve.
- Jake Fischer of Yahoo Sports activities takes a better take a look at how the NBA’s new tax apron guidelines are impacting groups’ selections this offseason, suggesting that gamers whose contracts are heavy on unlikely incentives could turn into tougher to commerce going ahead. Wizards guard Jordan Poole, Warmth guard Tyler Herro, and Nets ahead Cameron Johnson are a number of of these gamers, Fischer writes — their offers every embrace between $2.5MM and $4.25MM in annual incentives. Whether or not or not they’re earned, these incentives are counted when figuring out the place a group is working relative to the aprons.
- ESPN’s Brian Windhorst recaps Staff USA’s Wednesday win over Serbia, whereas Joe Vardon of The Athletic offers a handful of takeaways from the squad’s time in Abu Dhabi, which additionally included an exhibition victory over Australia. Kevin Durant (calf pressure) didn’t apply with the membership in Abu Dhabi, however is hoping to get on the court docket in London throughout Staff USA’s remaining cease earlier than heading to Paris, Vardon writes. The U.S. will face South Sudan on Saturday and Germany on Monday in its final pre-Olympic tune-up video games.
- The Clippers despatched $4.3MM to the Jazz within the Russell Westbrook/Kris Dunn commerce, based on ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski (Twitter hyperlink), greater than overlaying Westbrook’s $4.03MM wage for the 2024/25 season.
