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Rule 5 / Scoring and Timing Regulations
b. A tossed ball on a jump ball is legally touched; or
c. The ball legally touches a player on the playing court when a free throw is
not successful and is to remain live.
Art. 3. The shot clock shall be started when:
a. An inbounds player legally touches the ball on a throw-in;
b. A team gains initial possession following a jump ball or unsuccessful try for
goal; or
c. There is a change of team control.
Section 11. Stopping Game and Shot Clocks
The game clock and shot clock, if running, shall be stopped when an official:
Art. 1. Signals:
a. A foul.
b. A held ball.
c. A violation.
Art. 2. Stops play:
a. At the expiration of time for each period.
b. Because of an injury, blood or a lost, displaced or irritated contact lens.
c. To confer with the scorers, timer or shot-clock operator.
d. Because of unusual delay in a dead ball being made live.
e. For any emergency.
Art. 3. Grants a coach’s or player’s visual or oral request for a timeout.
Art. 4. Recognizes a request by the head coach or a player for a timeout after a
goal until the subsequent throw-in begins.
Art. 5. Responds to the official timer’s signal to grant a head coach’s request
to address the possibility of a correctable error as in Rule 2-12 or to determine
whether a timing, scoring or alternating-possession mistake needs to be prevented
or rectified or to determine whether a flagrant 2 personal foul or flagrant 2 contact
technical occurred. The appeal to the official shall be presented at the scorers’
table, where a coach of each team may be present.
Art. 6. Suspends play immediately when necessary to protect an injured player.
Art. 7. Suspends play after the ball is dead or controlled by the injured player’s
team or when the opponents complete a play after a player is injured.
a. A play shall be completed when a team withholds the ball from play by
ceasing to attempt to score or advance the ball to a scoring position.
Art. 8. Suspends play at the earliest possible time when a player incurs a wound
that causes bleeding or has blood on his body caused by blood from another
player’s wound. The official shall allow 20 seconds to remedy the situation before
instructing the player to leave the game.
Art. 9. Recognizes each successful field goal in the last 59.9 seconds of the
second half or any extra period.