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New Pr© Court Rules To increase Shooting■iA s-it\i ^xiywE }ji-l NEW YORK (U?y—National Basketball Association oScials! n-today adopted several rule changes for the 1954-55 season, the; 'Imost important of which virtually forces each team, to take aj 7?! shot at the basket wihin 24 seconds afetr gainlngt possession, ozlLejthe balk :-j[ The new. rule will apply j 1 throughout the entire game.jj ^jrailure to get off a shot within:■r; the allotted 24 seconds, which villi n | be timed by a special clock, wiLtjj ^ | result in Joss of possession of the|4 •n j balL -■ ’ \;si 1■e| X. B- A. OFFICIALS, in the;3 Z\second day of their three-day:? yj meeting here, said the rule Is:*s jbound to discourage stalling tac-;^22 j tics and foul exchanges.rvj They pointed out that the *TG-;Cd;second rule.1 * whereby a team has -'-ejlO seconds to move the ball past|?midcourt, will be retained along,^ lejwith. the new 24-second rule. :_ ni Another rule change adopted^ i-iwas.that each team will be penal-;) jized If it draws more than sixji }fouls In any of the four reguia-p i lion 12-minute quarters. j\ .For each additional foul, afterjt bix which a team draws against jr jit in any one quarter, the rivalh s [team will be awards dtwo fbuiic M shots instead of the customary I j Ltone. \*- _ I*n j DURING A five-minute over- . {time period, each team will bep i allcwed to draw three fouls;aware ea two :oiu snots.In adopting the rule changes, :€ LLjN. B. A, officials voted to eiixa-*a ■inate the existing two-minute!7 I rule. The rule, which was used Is jln the last two minutes of regt-js Ration play, specified that a jump--iball between the fouling player;3 |and the player fouled was tobell - sheld after each successful foul. j, j The officials felt that with the! jnew 24-second rule there was no S vi need to retain the old two-minute ^ | rule. ■ _THU OFFICIALS voted 3Iaa-;, e5rice Fodoloff a three-year cor.-;”| tract as president.-}. Podoloff, who has operated on-’, jdsr onc-year contracts for the! Qpasv eight years, was voted the^ term pact at an undisclosed^ jselary by the league's board of; j governors. j!The N. B. A- also agreed on aii ; schedule of 72 games.
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Syracuse Herald Journal

Syracuse, New York, US

Sat, Apr 24, 1954

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