NBA approves expanded rosters, keeps coach's challenges

The NBA Board of Governors approved expanding active rosters to 15 from 13 players on game days.

The expanded active rosters will give teams extra players that can suit up for games, with positive coronavirus cases likely to impact the league this season. Under NBA rules, clubs can carry up to 17 players on their full rosters, including two players under two-way contracts with the G League.

The league also announced the approval of coach's challenges on a full-time basis for the 2020-21 season and put the campaign's trade deadline on March 25.

Coach's challenges were initially instituted on a one-year trial basis in 2019.

NBA Board of Governors are also expected to approve the sale of the Utah Jazz to billionaire Ryan Smith, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reports. Smith reached an agreement in October to purchase the Jazz from longtime owners the Miller family for a reported $1.6 billion.