[TDDance234]

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.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4563546

[blwall1416]

Now if we can just get dook to put their players in the NBA, we could have some sort of discussion.

[ballah09]

just give Lebron the championship already

[ToTheLeft]

just give Lebron the championship already

Seriously. If this isn't a handmade rule for LeBron, I don't know what is.

[blwall1416]

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.

This is very important. We ref the game the way our supervisors want it reffed. If we don't, we won't work for them very long. Right or wrong, that's just the way it is.

[TDDance234]

just give Lebron the championship already

Seriously. If this isn't a handmade rule for LeBron, I don't know what is.

Is this the crab dribble that is so widely talked about?

[ToTheLeft]

just give Lebron the championship already

Seriously. If this isn't a handmade rule for LeBron, I don't know what is.

Is this the crab dribble that is so widely talked about?

Gather the ball, take two steps, elbow someone out of the way, dunk.

Yeah, that's pretty much everything LeBron has ever done.

[Rocketfan]

This should be called the Patrick Ewing rule....

[SumItUp]

This will open up a new way of playing the game. The rules say two steps, but the refs will be told forget the rulebook and allow 3 (except for certain players that can have 4).

[JMUDukes]

Why do we just eliminate traveling all together...

as an aspiring ref this just makes me sick...it screams superstar rule

[LUconn]

except now everybody can do it.

[Liberty4Life]

And then we'll get superstars taking three steps.