NBA traveling non-calls

An NBA player traveled???

It happens. It’s accepted. Just like they technically “palm” the ball on about every dribble.

Big deal.

I quit trying to understand NBA violations and non-violations years ago.

Do you even crab dribble?

Carrying is the one that truly never gets called, IMO

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I quit trying to understand NBA violations and non-violations years ago.

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I have come to like the refereeing in the NBA once I understood how the games are called.

They tend to let things go that don’t affect the play unless it’s egregious.

So if a guy gets fouled on a layup, but it’s a borderline foul call, they’ll wait to see if the ball goes in. If he makes the layup, no call since it was borderline. If he misses, they’ll blow the whistle (even if the call is a little late) because they feel the foul caused the player to miss. They will call the foul right away though if it’s an obvious foul.

As for traveling, they’re not going to call it in pointless situations like an open fast break.

If they made a mistake on one end, they’ll look to do a “make up call” on the other thing to even it out. They’ll call it much more strict to get the make up call by calling traveling tightly by the book or calling a moving screens strictly.


It really is the best way to officiate a basketball game. The refs use their judgement to keep the game fair yet not let the entertainment value get bogged down by constant whistles from incredibly strict refereeing.

It's expanded into college ball, too. I'm starting to believe that there's a deliberate plan to do away with "walking" in circumstances where a dunk is foreseeable but the player needs to get a running start to accomplish it. They must believe it "improves" the game. Every time I see this happen,I cringe. I mean, I love dunks, but the two or three bouncing steps for elevation negates the "awesomeness" of the dunk.

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Carrying is the one that truly never gets called, IMO

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It actually does get called about once a game, which only draws attention to the other dozens of obvious times it isn't.

After considering your post, I think you are correct. Everybody is on board with the "non-walking" calls.

I'm sort of concerned that youngsters see this and think it's OK for them to take a few steps while playing in high school, etc. However, given my comments to another post, this style of refereeing is likely to trickle down to that level, anyway.

To me it is about the fundamentals. Basketball is played a certain way, you don’t take 3 steps for any reason. Whether it leads to more calls and disrupts the game somewhat, it doesn’t matter. The players would eventually adjust and not do it much anymore. When you have played fundamental basketball long enough you know when take that extra step, it just feels wrong.