This morning I woke up, turned on SportsCenter and hear that the NBA has made a rule change. Every year a bunch of little things in the rules are changed or experimented with to help make the game the best it can be.
So what do they do? What is the most missed call in the NBA?
Traveling.
In college, you never see a kid get away with taking 3 steps after he picks up the dribble. Refs call it every time in the NCAA.
In the NBA, it was never called. You weren't allowed to take 3 steps but everyone did and would hardly get a whistle blown.
Well now, you are legally allowed to take that extra step.
Great, now are we going to start seeing 4 steps being taken and no whistle? I mean, we saw it when the rule was 2 steps... Why wouldn't we see the same sort of evolution for 3 steps? At that point lets just get rid of the dribble all together. No one will need it.
And doesn't this mean that the NBA is pretty much acknowledging that they weren't following the rules in the first place? Sure they could've just changed the rule to what ever they want, they are the NBA.
But it makes you wonder if the refs are told what to call and what not to call despite what the rule book says.
This makes a pretty strong case for that argument.
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