By Tim Reynolds Associated Press
July 2, 2026 - 4:01 pm
Summer League games mightiness extremity a fewer minutes earlier than accustomed this year.
The NBA announced Thursday that the “one escaped propulsion rule” volition beryllium utilized astatine the summertime leagues happening this period successful Salt Lake City, Northern California and Las Vegas.
The regularisation — designed to velocity up play — means immoderate foul that would typically effect successful the awarding of one, 2 oregon 3 escaped throws volition alternatively effect successful a azygous free-throw attempt. That effort volition beryllium worthy the aforesaid full fig of points arsenic the escaped throws it replaces.
The G League has utilized this regularisation since 2019-20.
The regularisation doesn’t use to the full game. Standard free-throw rules — 2 shots for a two-shot foul, etc. — volition beryllium utilized for the past 2 minutes of 4th quarters and successful each of overtime.
It’s unclear if the one-free-throw regularisation volition marque it into NBA games, but Summer League has been a proving crushed for eventual regularisation changes.
The G League and Summer League person been utilized galore times successful caller years arsenic investigating labs for the league earlier bringing regularisation changes oregon amended policies into NBA games. Among those that started astatine those levels and yet got to the NBA: the coaches’ challenge, resetting the 24-second changeable timepiece to 14 seconds successful violative rebound situations and the one-shot grant for a modulation instrumentality foul — which is erstwhile a defender intentionally commits a foul to halt a modulation accidental for the opposition.
Another tweak to summertime games
The league besides revealed Thursday that the “connected basketball” volition beryllium portion of summertime league.
The shot utilized this summertime volition person “an embedded sensor that detects interaction with the ball,” the league said. It isn’t noticeable and doesn’t alteration the mode the shot feels and plays, and the value quality is infinitesimal astatine best.
The crushed down it: Collecting information to “support aboriginal officiating applications, specified arsenic last-touch out-of-bounds calls,” the league said.
Summer League schedules
Summer League play begins Friday with the commencement of the California Classic, which volition beryllium hosted by the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings — with games successful San Francisco and Sacramento done Monday. Golden State, Miami, San Antonio and the Los Angeles Lakers volition play successful San Francisco; a 2nd Golden State team, positive Sacramento, Brooklyn and Milwaukee volition play successful Sacramento.
The Salt Lake City Summer League — featuring Utah, Atlanta, Memphis and Oklahoma City — volition person games connected Saturday, Monday and Tuesday. No. 2 draught prime Darryn Peterson of the Jazz and No. 3 prime Cameron Boozer of Memphis are connected the rosters for that event.
And the authoritative NBA Summer League, with each 30 teams playing astatine slightest 5 games, runs from July 9-July 19 successful Las Vegas. No. 1 prime AJ Dybantsa is scheduled to marque his summertime debut connected July 9 erstwhile Washington takes connected Utah — mounting up a imaginable No. 1 vs. No. 2 prime matchup if Peterson plays successful that game.
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