NBA studies banning unnatural movements to provoke fouls

The NBA competition committee wants tighten the fence against the tendency of its stars and best shooters when it comes to causing fouls thanks to movements which describes how unnatural. The league has already shared a compilation of player examples from all 30 teams that describes what moves it thinks are unnatural.

The intent of the American competition is avoid sideways or backward movements to provoke contact with the defender and force a personal foul that sends them to the free throw line. Some stars like James Harden, Luka Doncic and Trae Young they are true specialists in the art of forcing fouls.

The idea of ​​the committee is to campaign against this type of play so that franchise owners vote to remove penalties which currently provides for the regulations, which gives attack players a lot of freedom in this regard.

The idea is to avoid a concentration of balls to the stars due to the ease of forcing fouls, and also to avoid the oversized advantage of attack over defense.

The intent of the league is that the referees no longer whistle foul if an attacking player moves his leg forward or sideways to provoke contact with the defender and eliminate a play that only seeks to gain an unfair advantage for the attacking team.

The final decision It will be held by the owners of the league’s 30 franchises before the Las Vegas Summer League in August.

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