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All officials wear a whistle that is used to stop play as a result of a foul or a violation on the court. Hand signals are used to indicate the nature of the infraction or to administer the game. In higher levels of college and professional basketball, officials wear a timing device on the belt-line called PTS (Precision Timing System).
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During an interval of play, all team members entitled to play are considered as players. The ball becomes dead when an official blows his whistle while the ball is live. All overtime periods are considered an extension of the fourth quarter for purposes of accumulated fouls. In FIBA 3x3 (half-court) play:
Finally, each team plays all the teams in the other conference twice apiece (30 games). [158] This asymmetrical structure means the strength of schedule will vary between teams (but not as significantly as the NFL or MLB). Over five seasons, each team will have played 80 games against their division (20 games against each opponent, 10 at home ...
In the National Basketball Association, the lead official is referred to by the term crew chief and the two other officials are the referee and umpire. All of the officials in a basketball game are generally accepted to have the same authority as the lead official and therefore they are collectively known as the officials or referees.
The USA Basketball Men's National Team, [2] commonly known as Team USA and the United States men's national basketball team, is the basketball team representing the United States. It is the most successful men's team in international competition, winning medals in all twenty Olympic tournaments it has entered, including seventeen golds.
This article comprises lists of National Basketball Association (NBA) players. These lists include players from the American National Basketball League (NBL), the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and the original American Basketball Association (ABA). All of these leagues contributed to the formation of the present-day NBA.
Shoe salesman; Organized first basketball clinic at North Carolina State University (1922); developed the popular Converse Basketball Yearbook (1922); selected All-America teams (1932); The Chuck Taylor "All-Star" was the official shoe of the Olympics (1936–68) [31] 1971: Abraham M. "Abe" Saperstein: Owner of the Harlem Globetrotters.