NBA considering second coaches' challenge if first successful - ESPN

MIAMI — The NBA is considering giving head coaches a second challenge of an official's call if the first challenge of the game is successful.

Byron Spruell, the league's president of basketball operations, said the idea would be discussed further during Thursday's meeting with the NBA's competition committee.

«We're absolutely looking at it,» Spruell said during ESPN's «NBA Today» on Wednesday. «The competition committee over the summer will review it. It's still a process. We have to get it through a board [of governors] vote over the summer, test it as well, but we feel like it's an incremental movement that we would potentially like to see.»

The league introduced the coaches' challenge in 2019-20, allowing a head coach to trigger an instant replay review of a called personal foul charged to his team, a called out-of-bounds violation, or a called goaltending or basket interference violation. (Reviews of out-of-bounds, goaltending and basket interference calls in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and overtime are exclusively triggered by referees and are not subject to coaches' challenges.)

Under the current rule, coaches are limited to one challenge per game. A successful challenge results in the team being allowed to keep the timeout that was used to trigger the review. Coaches typically are hesitant to challenge a call earlier in games, even if it's clearly wrong, because they want to reserve that option for crunch-time situations.

Under the proposal, the team would be allowed to keep its timeout with a successful challenge and be given another challenge to use later in the game.

«There's an appetite for it,» Spruell said. «We'll see where it comes down.»

Spruell also said the league office is considering