What If Every NBA Rule Was Up for Grabs

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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While NBA players and their style of play have changed drastically in the league’s 75 years of existence, the rules that govern the game have mostly stayed the same. The popularity of the All-Star Game’s “Elam Ending” shows that changing many of basketball's long-standing rules could improve the game for fans, players and the league. ESPN’s Kirk Goldsberry dives deep into which rules should get scrapped and what to do instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	ESPN Daily is presented by QuickBooks.
0:03.3	Success starts with Intuit QuickBooks.
0:09.0	Next, Watkins is what I'm talking about.
0:12.3	Look at the bar and calling for it.
0:14.6	And he is from African.
0:16.0	Let's do it.
0:16.8	Cleveland.
0:17.2	Let's do it in Cleveland.
0:18.4	Cleveland.
0:18.9	Cleveland is on here.
0:20.9	God! Got it! The Trinnell in. Cleveland. Let's do it, Cleveland. Cleveland. When you get to the fun. When LeBron
0:22.1	when the best NBA,
0:26.3	Game winning shot by the Brom Chains.
0:35.1	When LeBron drained that fadeaway Sunday to win one of the best NBA All-Star games we can remember,
0:41.0	it wasn't just a win for him and his team and the host city of Cleveland.
0:46.0	It was a win for a grand experiment that, on paper, once sounded absolutely insane.
0:53.7	Because there was no buzzer for LeBron to beat in that dramatic moment.
0:58.8	In fact, there was no clock to speak of at all.
1:03.7	So today, we turn to Kirk Goldsbury,
1:06.5	former vice president for strategic research with the San Antonio Spurs
1:10.3	and current professor of sports analytics at the University of Texas to discuss what else the NBA should seriously be rethinking in its 75th year of existence.
1:22.3	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Friday, February 25th. This is ESPN Daily.
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