NBA Board of Governors approver instant replay and rules changes

New York - The  NBA  announced today  that is Board  of Gonvernor's  has  approved that  additional trigger  for  instant replay  review as well as  five modifications to the existing replay rules. In addition, the Board approved three other playing rule changes. These rules will go into effect commencing with preseason games on Friday, October 17. Expanison of   instant  replay  rules 
• Officials may utilize instant replay whenever they are not reasonably certain a team had an improper number of players on the court while the ball was in play.

rules  changes : If a team has too many players on the court while the ball is in play, (i) the offending team would both be assessed a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul and lose possession if it had possession at the time the violation was discovered, and (ii) the non-offending team would continue to have the option of either accepting or nullifying the game action that occurred during the violation. Previously, if the offending team had possession, it would keep possession of the ball despite the violation.

• Teams may freely substitute players whenever any timeout is called. Prior to this change, there were limited circumstances in which a team couldn't substitute for certain players at timeouts.

• The shot clock will no longer be reset to five seconds when a held ball is caused by the defense with fewer than five seconds remaining on the clock.