The NBA wants to make the final minutes of its games more fluid and quicker. The NBA board of governors approved a rule to decrease the number of timeouts per game from 18 to 14. It also passed a rule that would limit timeouts in the final two minutes of the game to two per team, down from three per team. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said that the league has made some changes over the last couple of years to improve the overall length of games, but the latest change is aimed at the "pace and flow of the game." "[Previous changes] in essence quietly got the length of our game down from two hours and 23 minutes to about two hours and 15 minutes, so we are pretty happy with the length of the game," Silver said at the board of governors news conference in Las Vegas. "[With this latest rules change] we were more focused on the pace and flow of the game and what we heard from our fans and many of our teams, what we heard was that the end of the games in particular were too choppy." read more http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...ernors-approves-rule-drop-outs-18-14-per-game
