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Rule 9, Section 5. Traveling [1] Art. 1. A player shall not travel with the ball. Art. 2. Traveling occurs when a player holding the ball moves a foot or both feet in any direction in excess of prescribed limits described in this section. Art. 3. A player who catches the ball with both feet on the playing court may pivot, using either foot.
FIBA headquarters in Mies, Switzerland. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA / ˈ f iː b ə / FEE-bə; French: Fédération Internationale de Basketball) [a] [5] is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide.
The International Basketball Association (IBA) was founded in 1995 by a group of businessmen led by Tom Anderson. [1] The original owners of franchises in the league were George Daniel (Black Hills Posse-Rapid City, SD), John Korsmo, [2] Al Gardner, and Al Hovland (Fargo Beez), Jeff McCarron (St. Cloud Rock 'n Rollers), [3] Bill Sorensen (Dakota Wizards - Bismarck) [4] and Earl Barish ...
The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) is the labor union that represents National Basketball Association (NBA) players. It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. However, the NBPA did not get recognition by NBA team owners until ten years ...
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
The National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) is a non-profit association composed of former professional basketball players of the NBA, ABA, Harlem Globetrotters, and WNBA. [1] It was founded in 1992 by NBA Hall of Famers Dave DeBusschere , Dave Bing , Dave Cowens , Oscar Robertson and former NBA point guard Archie Clark .
This is a list of the men's national basketball teams in the world. There are more than 200 national basketball teams, the second sport with more national teams, [ 1 ] with teams representing all UN member states except Liechtenstein , as well as several dependent territories , sub-national entities and states who are not members of the United ...
The Australian Basketball Players' Association adopted its current name in 2019 as part of an organisational rebrand; the rebrand placed players as central to the organisations name and logo, in order to recognise that the players are at the heart of everything the organisation does. [3]