NBA approves new rule for too many men violation

[Atzar]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4018740

NEW YORK -- NBA owners have approved a rules change regarding violations for too many men on the court, closing a loophole that allowed Portland to score on a six-on-five situation earlier this season.

If a team is given a technical foul for having too many players, the non-offending team can choose to accept or nullify the action that took place before the whistle blew. If the team playing with five scores, it can keep the points.

Should that team nullify the play, the game clock reverts to the time before the ball was put in play with too many players on the floor.

The rule was announced Thursday and will take effect Friday.

The Trail Blazers made a basket against Boston in December with six men on the floor. They were whistled for a technical but were allowed to keep their two points because the violation wasn't caught before they scored.


Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press

It doesn't give us another shot at that game, but at the very least it's good that the league did something about this. 

Thoughts?

[Redz]

Fair enough

[RAcker]

Fair enough

Yep.  All we can ask.

I wonder if the Officials Union will have a cow about us again tomorrow.  Get out the Midol.

[bdm860]

First thing I thought of when I saw the headline of this thread was this Men on Football clip, specifically from about 3:55 to 4:09:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OKwRsnWO84

"Why do they stop a play when there's too many mens on the field, to me that's party time."

"Because, Blaine, too many mens, that's an illegal formation."

"Well if love is wrong then I don't want to be right."