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In the NBA, there must be two timeouts in each quarter (known as mandatory timeouts). These timeouts only occur at the first whistle after a certain minute mark. 1st mandatory timeout (less than 7:00 minutes remaining)
All overtime periods are considered an extension of the fourth quarter for purposes of accumulated fouls. In the NBA and WNBA: If the player's team has four or fewer team fouls in the quarter, the team fouled gets possession of the ball. Starting with the team's fifth foul in the quarter, the player fouled gets two free throws.
The NBA is the only league that plays 48-minute games; Olympic games and college basketball games, meanwhile, are 40 minutes long. (College games are played as two 20-minute halves.)
At the 2020 NBA All-Star Game, the Elam Ending was introduced after Chris Paul brought up the idea to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. [10] This version used an untimed fourth quarter, with the target score being 24 points more than the leading team's score after the third.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. [3]
The most extreme case occurred on November 22, 1950, when the Fort Wayne Pistons defeated the Minneapolis Lakers by a record-low score of 19–18, including 3–1 in the fourth quarter. [3] The Pistons held the ball for minutes at a time without shooting (they attempted 13 shots for the game) to limit the impact of the Lakers' dominant George ...
The game is played with the standard NBA rules; however, there are several rule changes that are used in this game. [3] [4]Games were played in four-quarters of 8 minutes from 2003 to 2011; since 2012, the game was extended to 10 minutes a quarter (similar to FIBA, WNBA. and NCAA Women's rules).
On October 25, 2023, the NBA brought back the conference-based format for the 2024 All-Star Game. The untimed fourth quarter (known as Elam Ending), which had been in used since 2020 in honor of Kobe Bryant, [11] was also removed. However, the charity aspect was retained, with the team that scores the most points in each quarter winning a cash ...