HoopIdea: Timeout Timeline

Crunch time in the NBA, when the most exciting, meaningful plays are likely to happen, has become quite the slog. With your help, HoopIdea is talking about some ways to make these last moments more fluid, exciting and fast-paced -- you know, like the rest of the game we love. So how did we get to the point where coaches and players can call enough timeouts for the last two minutes to take a quarter of an hour? A look back at the evolution of timeout rules in the NBA tells us two things: Timeout rules are far from fixed.

Source: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/36714/hoopidea-timeout-timeline

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