5 weird NBA rules you didn't know about - Part 1

#3 The Disaster Draft

One can only hope that this rule is never used

This is a rule that hopefully will never have to be used in the NBA. The rule states that if there would be an accident where at least five players of a single NBA team die, there would be an emergency draft that allows the team to pick players to complete their roster from every other team in the league.

In that case, each team could protect 5 players and the affected team could draft the other players that are not protected by a team, one player per team (they can't take 2 undefended players from the same roster).

So for instance, if this rule was in place in Division 1 football in 1958, Manchester United would have been able to draft players from the other teams in the division after the disaster of Munich.