SAN FRANCISCO — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Friday that he expects the oft-maligned "transition take foul" to come with stiffer penalties next season.
Silver expects the rules regarding the play — where a defender intentionally commits a foul to halt a transition opportunity for the opposition — are going to change this summer. It's been something the NBA and its competition committee have been studying for several seasons.
Momentum has been building for several months toward a change, one that now seems likely to come at league meetings in July.
"I am confident that we'll see a change," Silver said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press.