By Jeremy Guzman

With baseball making changes to help their games, in an attempt to make them more viewer friendly, the National Basketball Association has also made some changes as well. The NBA has made eight rule changes, which does not seem like much, but they are in fifty articles. Many of these cover equipment and facilities.

Other regulations cover teams and their players, captains and coaches, rules for playing, violations such as fouls and their penalties, some special situation and even officials.

One of the most significant rule changes is called the golden rule. All athletes are liable to this, and it suggests that athlete will take full responsibility for their actions.

Also each team is limited to four fouls per regulation period, and they should not have any additional penalties. This must be in place to help keep the games more fair and less brutal. Common fouls are going to charged as team fouls. If they exceed four the team will be penalized by one free throw attempt plus a penalty free throw. This is going to help reduce the number of fouls per game because players will be less likely to initiate a foul if it means that their team will suffer the consequences.

Another rule change states that players can only wear one or two digits on their NBA jerseys. Players aree not allowed to wear numbers higher than ninety-nine, at least during NBA games.

These rules may not seem like a big deal, and they have been attempted in the past to get these rule changes done, but there has been a lot of push back from fans.

The standard NBA contract today specifically prohibits boxing, professional wrestling, motorcycling, moped-riding, auto-racing, sky-diving and hang gliding. Players are not allowed to do these dangerous activities because a loss of a player due to an injury or even worse a death, means that the team will suffer.

There is a lot more than just championships and competition on the line. There are millions of dollars too, not to mention all the extra sales of jerseys and things like that. So, billions of dollars are at stake, so each player is forced to sign off on a lifestyle that will keep them a little safer.

Some other changes for game play were added as well, mostly for the safety of the players. The idea that players need to be safer, like changes made to football in the NFL, means that games will not be stopped, players will not get hurt, and games can be enjoyed much more by the fans. That is a formula that will be more profitable for everyone.