The NBA Board of Governors has voted to reduce the number of timeouts in a game from a total of 18 to 14, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Teams will be limited to two timeouts in the final three minutes of a game instead of the former three timeouts in the last two minutes of a game.

The changes are an aggressive measure to try to speed up the game, which can elongate considerably in close games, when coaches choose to often go and draw plays or rally the troops before an imminent catch-up takes place.

Commissioner Adam Silver has been intently focused on improving the pace of the game, already offering an offense-based gameplay with lots of transition and end-to-end action.

Silver emphasized during his press conference that these changes will make a major difference in the fluidity of the games for both those who attend games and those who watch them at home, according to Tim Bontemps of the Washington Post.

Cutting on the number of timeouts is a great way to remove the choppiness at the end of games, which only tends to get worse in the postseason, when the majority of eyes are locked in the NBA.