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NBA to alter traveling rules
NBA players will be able to take two steps before they have to stop, pass or shoot this season.
The NBA has put into writing a rule allowing players on the move to gather the ball, after driving or catching it, and then take two steps. Throughout NBA history, the rulebook said players could take one step.
The new rule reads, in part "A player who receives the ball while he is progressing or upon completion of a dribble, may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball."
It is believed to be the first time any league, at any level anywhere in the world, has explicitly allowed two steps.
In March, NBA vice president of referee operations Joe Borgia told TrueHoop's Henry Abbott that referees had long been instructed to ignore the rulebook on this point and allow two steps.
On a conference call with reporters earlier this week, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations Stu Jackson told Abbott: "Based on Joe's comments, when you had a conversation with Joe, we did in fact tweak the language on traveling in this year's book."
Enforcement of the one-step rule has been hit-or-miss at every level of basketball. Archival footage shows NBA greats, from Magic Johnson and Pete Maravich to Bob Cousy and Julius Erving, getting away with two steps. Borgia, whose father was also an NBA official, said he cannot remember a time when NBA referees did not allow two steps.
Others insist allowing two steps represents an NBA strategy to aid scorers and make the league more exciting. Legendary point guard and current Knick broadcaster Walt "Clyde" Frazier says the league relaxed traveling standards some time ago to increase scoring.
"They go 20 feet to the hoop without dribbling one time," Frazier said. "This is what they are getting away with nowadays. Some of them are so obvious. You'll hear me on the broadcast saying 'That's a travel! Watch the feet!' Wilt [Chamberlain] would have averaged 100 points a game if they had let him do that.
"When guys couldn't put up points, about when they changed the hand-check rule, they made things easier for scorers, because these players can't shoot like we did," Frazier said. "Those few years when the Knicks were good [the early 1990s] -- that wasn't pretty basketball."
Whether or not this will affect play on the court remains to be seen. Referees have long been instructed to allow two steps and in interviews with NBA players last season there was some confusion about the rule. But most said they thought they were allowed to take two steps.
ESPN.com TrueHoop blogger Henry Abbott contributed to this story.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4563546
Was this rule made for Lebron?
My thoughts exactly.Was this rule made for Lebron?
I'm pretty sure your should call him LeTravel or LeCrab in this contextWas this rule made for Lebron?
Now players will be trying to get away with 3 steps.
what do you mean trying? Lebron was already doing it, they just made official
This is a joke right?
Haven't the refs been making travel calls based on taking more than two steps for years?
If so, at least the rule is more consistent now.
its so obvious since everyone can see itWas this rule made for Lebron?
hahaha Crabdribble!!I'm pretty sure your should call him LeTravel or LeCrab in this context
wtf??
well one good thing out of this is that duncan will for sure not be called for travelling when he does his little shuffle with the feet when he catches at top of the 3 point line.
Lebron will be unstopabble~
If someone calls Parker for that jump stop this year I'm going nuclear.
It's authorized under Stein.
Stein wants LeCrab, his money maker do whatsoever he likes.
i give them 20 games b4 the rules
same like the cramping down on players floppin last season
Not a shock. They have allowed 2 steps for 40 years... now its just official.
wtf
I thought two steps was always the rule
Whoa
Me too! , I was taught it was two steps, I think.
What a joke
Read the article. This has been allowed since the NBA started.
Not at all!Was this rule made for Lebron?
If it would be made for LeBron it would include 4-5 steps, not only 2!
Actually they allowed the NBA players to take two steps before they shoot but not allowed them to take two steps before they stop or pass.
The problem is that when the written rule was 1 step, the refs allowed 2. Now they're changing the written rule to 2 steps which means that Lebron will be allowed to take 3
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