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NEW YORK (AP)—NBA referees will be able to use instant replay on shot-clock and out-of-bounds calls this season.

The NBA Board of Governors approved the expanded use on Friday.

Referees will be permitted to check replay to see if the 24-second clock expired before a successful shot or a foul.

They can also consult video during the last 2 minutes of regulation and any overtime period to determine which player last touched the ball prior to it going out of bounds.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Akctva7qGri.M6q8DtPlLRS8vLYF?slug=ap-nbainstantreplay&prov=ap&type=lgns

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Needed, especially with HD cams these days, the viewers at home can be completely disgusted with a call in which we all could clearly see. In the last 2 minutes is when a big calls will happen if the game is close.

I still for one think that each coach should get at least 1 challenge call per game.

i personally would like a review of goaltending calls. but the opposite side being it will slow the game down.

what I don't like about this is that while they will be able to change a call on whether the ball left the players hand before the clock expires the refs will be helpless to change the call if there was a foul in the play.

Now just got to get the refs to sign a new contract.

snaquille oatmeal wrote:

NEW YORK (AP)—NBA referees will be able to use instant replay on shot-clock and out-of-bounds calls this season.

The NBA Board of Governors approved the expanded use on Friday.

Referees will be permitted to check replay to see if the 24-second clock expired before a successful shot or a foul.

They can also consult video during the last 2 minutes of regulation and any overtime period to determine which player last touched the ball prior to it going out of bounds.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Akctva7qGri.M6q8DtPlLRS8vLYF?slug=ap-nbainstantreplay&prov=ap&type=lgns

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I'd like to see something similar to the NFL, where each team is given a "challenge" maybe 2 per half, and if they are wrong, they lose a time out. 4 calls a game that went corrected would go along way in making the game more watchable, and I think make the players less whiny, (and some "it's a conspiracy" fans less whiny also) as the ref could say challenge it then. The game is just to fast and refereing too hard, I know I've done it, it's slight of hand at times when a player swipes at another player if they touched all ball, wrist, or nothing at all, It's impossible to know at times.

What happens to the end of game fouls that the refs dont call so often.. will that be referred..