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Basketball Referee watches players closely during the WNBA finals. In basketball, an official (usually called a referee) enforces the rules and maintains order in the game. The title of official also applies to the scorers and timekeepers, and other personnel that have an active task in maintaining the game. Basketball is regarded as among the ...
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In international basketball and in college basketball, the referee is the lead official in a game, and is assisted by either one or two umpires. 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.
Her first regular season game as an NBA referee was in November 1997 during a match between the Atlanta Hawks and the Philadelphia 76ers. [14] During her time with the NBA, she was the Supervisor of Officials for the Women's National Basketball Association from 1997 to 1998. [15] Kantner remained with the NBA until she was fired in 2002. [16]
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.
Timothy Francis Donaghy (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə ɡ i / DON-ə-ghee; born January 7, 1967) [2] is an American former professional basketball referee who worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons from 1994 to 2007 until he was caught in a gambling scandal. [3]
The NBA announced Sunday that Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves has been fined $100,000 for "directing an inappropriate and unprofessional gesture toward a game official and publicly ...
In U.S. NCAA basketball, a referee decides a game is to be forfeited when any of these criteria are satisfied: Any player, squad member or bench personnel fails to comply with any technical foul penalty and/or makes a travesty of the game. When conditions warrant. A team refuses to play after being instructed to do so by an official.