Commissioner Adam Silver confident that the NBAs take-foul policy will change – NBA.com

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that he expects the oft-maligned transition take foul to come with stiffer penalties next season.

Silver expects the rules regarding the play where a defender intentionally commits a foul to halt a transition opportunity for the opposition are going to change this summer. Its been something the NBA and its competition committee have been studying for several seasons.

Momentum has been building for several months toward a change, one that now seems likely to come at league meetings in July.

I am confident that well see a change, Silver said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. I would not say Im overconfident that it will be the last change, even though this is a rule that weve been experimenting with in the G League for last four years.

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The way such fouls have been officiated in the G League since 2018 is this: When a defender commits a take foul, which is one where no play on the ball is made but doesnt rise to the level of a clear path foul, the fouled team retains possession and gets one free throw before play resumes. The clear path foul results in two shots and the ball.

I think the take foul needs to be abolished as soon as humanly possible, Golden State coach Steve Kerr said earlier in these playoffs. I coached in FIBA the last few summers and FIBA has a rule that basically eliminated it entirely. Its so penalizing when you get called for it that coaches all teach their teams, dont do it. Thats what we need to do as a league. Youve just got to get rid of it, make the game better, open up the game and hopefully thats what will happen this summer.

The G League and Summer League are the traditional testing labs for the NBA before making rule changes or amending policies. Among those that started at those levels and eventually got to the NBA the coaches challenge, plus resetting the 24-second shot clock to 14 seconds in offensive rebound situations.

The take foul, Silver believes, is about to get added to that list.

I always say to people, including on this potential change in take fouls, if there was something that was obvious it would have happened long ago, Silver said after the dedication of a new NBA Cares Live, Learn or Play Center to assist the Boys & Girls Club of San Francisco. Theres pros and cons to everything we do. This is a change Im very much in favor of, and from all the research weve looked at, its something our fans really want too.

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