The importance for the coach’s challenge could increase for the NBA’s upcoming 2021-22 season. According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, the NBA Board of Governors will vote on changing how out-of-bounds plays are reviewed late in games.
Sources: The NBA Board of Governors will vote this month to approve the Coach’s Challenge being the lone method to review out-of-bounds calls with under two minutes left in games, meaning out-of-bounds plays will no longer be automatically triggered for officials.
If approved, limiting the number of automatically-triggered reviews should remove prolonged breaks in the action in the final moments of contests.