Overview

• The Playing Rules Oversight Panel approved coach’s challenges, flagrant foul adjustments and other rule changes on June 10 for the upcoming season.
• Coaches can use timeouts to challenge out-of-bounds calls, basket interference/goaltending and restricted-area defender violations.
• Teams that win a challenge earn one additional replay opportunity while a failed challenge removes further challenge rights for the rest of the game.
• Officials retain the authority to initiate video reviews on goaltending and restricted arc plays in the final two minutes, with other reviews now driven by coach challenges.
• The panel also introduced a Flagrant 1 foul for groin contact, tweaked the continuous-motion rule to allow step completion and shot attempts after absorbed contact, and recommended studying a shift from halves to quarters.