As the season goes on, there is one thing to celebrate above all else: The NBA’s rule change concerning fouling to stop the fast break. As you may remember last season, seemingly each fast break was ground to a halt as players and teams exploited this loophole, resulting in what may have been the most shameful strategy in what King-of-Hyperbole and former announcing legend Bill Walton would have called “The Worst Basketball in the History of Western Civilization.”
Last season, as we watched the death of the fast break and waited interminably for the wheels of justice to turn, basketball suffered until finally perhaps at a meeting in a Marriott or maybe just in the woods during the offseason, NBA masterminds decided to do something about it with the invention of the “take foul”, which gives the fouled team a technical free throw and the ball if their fast break attempt was unfairly destroyed.