I don't really get why intentional fouling is such an issue. Coaches should take the player out of the game when it is being done if they can't perform the actions on the field.

Wouldn't a simple solution be to give the team the option of declining free throws and taking the ball out of bounds with a new shot clock.

The problem is that the strategy of teams late in games when down is to foul to slow down the game and give themselves a chance if they miss free throws. Games would basically just end if they could get a new shot clock every time.

But that is why this is stupid. The NBA doesn't care if a team fouls with 20 seconds left down by 2 points. They somehow care if you foul down by 8 with 1:50 to go in the third quarter.

I don't really get why intentional fouling is such an issue. Coaches should take the player out of the game when it is being done if they can't perform the actions on the field.

Silver is as much of a micromanaging asshole as his predecessor and he's been afforded entirely too much goodwill from the Sterling affair.

This is dumb. Should MLB change the shift rule, too?

not only is the NBA awful, but so are it's fans.

Dumb move. You're making a rule for Andrew Drummond and Dwight Howard and DeAndre Jordan--3 players out of 450:

marginal cases make bad rules

it's a little like banning the defensive shift in baseball because David Ortiz and Prince Fielder can't figure out how to lay down a bunt down the third-base line. which, btw, Joe Girardi and others in MLB advocate for.