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DALLAS _ In the official literature dispensed by the NBA to start the season, one little word was noticeably absent from its point-by-point breakdown of the new rules changes.
Z-O-N-E.
You can't find it anywhere on the league's one-page primer, explaining the implementation of a defensive three-second call and an eight-second limit to bring the ball upcourt. It's not an accidental oversight, either. Zone is a four-letter word to commissioner David Stern.
Stern's preference: "Now it's just `anything goes' except for defensive three seconds."
It's a not-so-small exception, of course, but you can't really quibble. Not with Stern's ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Teams don't mind being in the zone.(The Dallas Morning News)