Your reasoning please, why can't NBA give teams the challenge right like NFL?

My guess is because they have to hype some players, NBA is more of a business than anything else and they might want to,at times, have control over the outcome of the game.

 

that defeats the purpose of even playing the game then. Isn't also against the law for a pro-sports league to control the outcome of the game? Isn't that part of the fair-agreement deal that allows these Pro-Sports League to operate?

 

Yeah, I like this challenge thing.. NBA took a small step 3-4 years ago with the last-second review and I think they definately need to expand via a challenge system

 

The problem with the challenge system is that in the NBA a penalty could be called on every single play... whether it is a foul or not is totally subjective

Unless you are talking about just reviewing black and white things like out of bounds, it wont work.

 

Yeah, but each team is limited to 1 check per half.. meaning 2 max a game, and one per each overtime.

I dont see how this could go wrong, sure it might slow the pace of the game and make the games a bit longer but if the refs are making the right calls, what problem would the front head of the NBA have?

 

Because NBA officials were specifically picked and/or genetically engineered to never make mistakes on the court. Stu Jackson and David Stern told me so.

 

I've been a huge proponent of a challenge system in the NBA for a couple seasons, but I don't think the league will institute such a rule (at least for the next couple of seasons) because it will affect the overall speed of the game. As nice as it would've been to have a challenge for the AK flop from last night, I'd sure hate to see calls reviewed every night since every play could be controversial in the NBA... Not to mention the fact that there really isn't time to call challenges in basketball since there isn't down time between plays like in the NFL. It's a great idea but it would definitely take some tweaking before it is ever instituted.

 

I agree 100%, we will never make bad calls.

~Sincerely
Tim Donaghey

 

iirc, the league will discuss challenge of calls this summer?

 

I've been a huge proponent of a challenge system in the NBA for a couple seasons, but I don't think the league will institute such a rule (at least for the next couple of seasons) because it will affect the overall speed of the game. As nice as it would've been to have a challenge for the AK flop from last night, I'd sure hate to see calls reviewed every night since every controversial call in the NBA is usually a subjective call... Plus, let's not fail to mention the fact that there really isn't time to call challenges in basketball since there isn't down time between plays like in the NFL. It's a great idea but it would definitely take some tweaking before it is ever instituted.

 

I think in football with 22 players on the field, with lots of contact, large field space, and 4 reffs it is hard to cover all the calls so they give the teams more of an option to help making the right calls.

 

The NFL doesn't review called penalties and I don't think the NBA would either. However, David Stern's crew should begin to review flops after games and have fines and suspensions for repeat offenders.

 

there are lots of downplay after an obivious bad call. you see players talking to the refs, and there you know, you wasted 2 minutes just arguing. the argument just wastes even more time than if we had a challenge system. maybe one challenge per quarter. or somethin to that extent. too many times, have the refs been inconsistant.