FIBA Official Basketball rules 2022

• If the foul is committed on a player in the act of shooting and the goal is not made: 2 or 3 free throws. • If the foul is a disqualification of a head coach: 2 free throws. • If the foul is a disqualification of a first assistant coach, substitute, excluded player or an accompanying delegation member, this foul is charged against the head coach as a technical foul: 2 free throws. In addition, if a disqualification of a first assistant coach, substitute, excluded player or an accompanying delegation member after leaving the team bench area is for their active participation during any fight: ▬ For each single disqualifying foul of a first assistant coach, substitute and excluded player: 2 free throws. All disqualifying fouls shall be charged against each offender. ▬ For each single disqualifying foul of any accompanying delegation member: 2 free throws. All disqualifying fouls shall be charged against the head coach. All free-throw penalties shall be executed, unless there are equal penalties on the opponent’s team to be cancelled. Fighting is physical interaction between 2 or more opponent players and any person permitted to sit on the team benches. This article only applies to the substitutes, head coaches, first assistant coaches, excluded players and accompanying delegation members who leave the confines of the team bench area during a fight or during any situation which may lead to a fight. Substitutes, excluded players or accompanying delegation members who leave the team bench area during a fight, or during any situation which may lead to a fight, shall be disqualified. Only a head coach and/or first assistant coach are permitted to leave the team bench area during a fight, or during any situation which may lead to a fight, to assist the referees to maintain or to restore order. In this situation, they shall not be disqualified. If a head coach and/or first assistant coach leave the team bench area and neither assist nor attempt to assist the referees to maintain or to restore order, they shall be disqualified. Rule

Article 39 Fighting 39.1 Definition

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