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NABA 7th-12th GRADE
GAME RULES
General Principles for Coaches:
- Remember that the NABA in-house League is about having fun while
learning and playing the game of basketball. Fairness to all players and
good sportsmanship among the players and coaches are equally important.
Winning is not the most important objective.
- Coaches are responsible for the conduct of his or her players while on
the basketball court. Coaches should endeavor to keep his or her team
players’ parents and friends from becoming belligerent toward opposing teams
and the referees. Coaches should also endeavor to keep the parents of his or
her team players from becoming too vocal or from being overly critical of
the parents’ son or daughter, the coach and the referees. A coach may
request the referees to remove any person, including a parent, from a gym
during a game.
General Rules Applicable to All Leagues:
- The North Allegheny Student Code of Conduct applies to all players while
they are inside any North Allegheny School District building.
- A. Any player verbally assaulting, intimidating, threatening, harassing
or insulting another player, coach, referee or spectator, or using any
language that would violate the North Allegheny Student Code of Conduct
(including the provisions under Student’s Rights and Responsibilities,
Freedom of Expression) must be removed from the remainder of that game by
his or her coach. The coach must report each player removal to the League
Commissioner.
B. Any player deliberately, physically assaulting, harming or attempting to
harm or otherwise manifesting an intention to harm (including, by way of
example, committing “hard” fouls in the discretion of the referees) another
player, coach, referee or spectator will be ejected from that game. Both
coaches must report all ejections or removals from a game to the League and
the applicable NABA Boys or Girls Coordinator.
C. The Executive Board may suspend any player or coach ejected from a game
or for conduct occurring before, during or after a game if, in the
discretion of the Executive Board, the player’s or coach’s actions or
conduct is considered serious or necessary to protect the health, safety and
welfare of players, coaches, referees or spectators.
D. Any player removed from a game by his or her coach under this Rule or
ejected from a game by referees for any reason, including conduct covered by
this Rule, on two occasions in any year will be (1) suspended from the
remainder of his or her team’s games (including all League and playoff
games) and (2) at the discretion of the NABA Board, reported to officials of
the North Allegheny School District for appropriate investigation and action
if the conduct involved a violation of the North Allegheny Student Code of
Conduct. However, if a player is suspended under this Paragraph, and the
suspended player is not then a senior (in grade level), a single removal or
ejection from a game under this Rule in the subsequent year may, in the
discretion of the NABA Executive Board, result in that player’s suspension
for the remainder of his or her team’s games.
E. A player or coach will be deemed to have been ejected from a game if (i)
the referees stop or end a game because of the player’s or coach’s conduct
but do not eject the player or coach or (ii) the player’s or coach’s actions
or conduct after the end of a game would have resulted in the player’s or
coach’s ejection if such actions or conduct had occurred while the game was
being played.
F. Any coach (i) ejected from a game on two occasions in any year for any
reason or (ii) acting in a manner that is inconsistent with NABA Rules or
detrimental to NABA will be suspended from the remainder of his or her
team’s games (including all League and playoff games) that year and, at the
discretion of the NABA Executive Board, may not be permitted to participate
in NABA (e.g., as a coach or League Commissioner) for such period as the
NABA Executive Board may determine in its discretion.
G. Any player or coach ejected from a game must immediately leave the school
or building in which the game is being played and surrounding grounds. Any
player or coach refusing to leave the school or building and surrounding
grounds will be suspended from the remainder of his or her team games (both
League and playoff games). At the discretion of the referees, if an ejected
player or coach refuses to immediately leave the gymnasium, the referees may
declare a forfeit of the game by the ejected player’s team. In the case of
an ejected player in the younger leagues who must wait for a parent to
return to the school or building, or for safety reasons, the ejected player
may wait in the gymnasium for his or her parent before leaving the school or
building, but the ejected player may not have any contact with any players
or referees in the gymnasium or building while waiting for his or her parent
to arrive. Upon the arrival of the ejected player’s parent, the ejected
player must then leave the school or building.
H. Any parent or spectator ejected from a game must immediately leave the
school or building in which the game is being played and surrounding
grounds. Any parent or spectator refusing to leave the school or building
and surrounding grounds or ejected from more than one game will not be
permitted to attend another NABA sponsored game for the remainder of the
season (including League and playoff games). At the discretion of the
referees, if an ejected parent or spectator refuses to immediately leave the
gymnasium, the referees may declare a forfeit of the game if the referees
are able to identify the association of the ejected parent or spectator to
one of the teams then playing. If an ejected parent or spectator refuses to
immediately leave the school or building and surrounding grounds, NABA may
call the local police and file a criminal trespass complaint against the
parent or spectator.
I. Any spectator (i) verbally assaulting, intimidating, threatening,
harassing or insulting a player or coach; or (ii) physically assaulting a
player or coach or (iii) physically intimidating or threatening to assault a
player or coach must be reported to the Executive Board by any coach
witnessing such actions or behavior. The NABA Executive Board, upon receipt
of a credible report from a coach or spectator, may bar the spectator from
attending any further NABA games for such period as the NABA Executive Board
may determine in its discretion.
J. Each League Commissioner may take whatever action he or she deems
necessary or appropriate in order to enforce NABA’s Rules or to protect the
health, safety and welfare of players, coaches, referees or spectators. If
feasible and provided any delay is not potentially harmful to the health,
safety and welfare of other players, coaches, referees or spectators, the
League Commissioner should discuss the situation and possible courses of
action with members of the NABA Executive Board prior to taking any action.
The League Commissioner, after consultation and warning to a coach, may
remove or take other disciplinary action against that coach if he or she
continually fails for any reason to enforce NABA’s Rules with regard to his
or her team’s players.
K. Any player or coach who is removed or suspended from the remainder of his
or her team’s games may appeal to the NABA Executive Board for
reconsideration or reinstatement. Any such appeal must be heard and
adjudicated at the next NABA Board meeting, unless the NABA Executive Board
elects in its discretion to hear the appeal sooner. A player’s or coach’s
appeal for reconsideration or reinstatement may be made to any officer of
NABA. The decision of the NABA Executive Board is final and binding on all
parties.
L. For purposes of these Rules, (i) the term, “year” means an NABA season
occurring within a school year and (ii) the term, “spectator” means any
person attending an NABA game who is not a player on or one of the coaches
of the teams then playing). The NABA Executive Board may delegate any of its
authority under this Rule, including without limitation the authority to
hear and adjudicate appeals, to an appeal panel comprised of not less than
three members of the NABA Executive Board.
- The only persons permitted to sit on a team bench during a game are the
coach, one assistant coach, the team scorekeeper and the team players. All
other persons must sit in the stands or the designated spectator area.
- The home team’s scorekeeper will be the official scorekeeper for the
game.
- Scorekeepers will record all individual and team fouls. Players must
leave game after committing a fifth individual foul. In the event of a
dispute as to the number of fouls called on any particular player, the
official scorekeeper’s book will control.
- The decisions of the referees are final! Players may not argue with the
referees. Coaches may question referees, but should refrain from arguing
with or “working” the referees.
- A player or coach will be ejected after receiving a second technical
foul in a game. Subject to Rule 4, any player or coach ejected twice from
games will be suspended from participating in the team’s next two games.
Both coaches must report all ejections from a game to the applicable League
Commissioner.
- All players appearing in an NABA game must wear their NABA-issued
basketball jersey; however a player will not be precluded from playing in a
game because of his or her inadvertent failure to bring his or her jersey to
the game.
- Players may not wear jewelry, including watches, chains and necklaces,
during NABA games.
- Each team will have two 45-second timeouts during each game.
- All games are played with a running clock that stops only for time outs,
injuries and on a referee’s whistle during the final minute of each half. If
a team is leading the other team by 25 points or more at any time during a
game, the clock will stop only for timeouts.
- Halftime of each game will last only three minutes.
- The League will not maintain team won/loss records and teams will not be
seeded for the playoffs.
- There is no overtime except during League playoffs. If the score is tied
at the end of any regular season game, the game is declared a tie.
- If the score is tied at the end of any playoff game, the teams will play
a first overtime period of two minutes in duration. All overtime periods
will have a running clock that stops only for time outs, foul shots until
the first foul shot is attempted and on a referee’s whistle. Each team will
have one 45-second timeout during the first overtime period. If the score
remains tied after the first overtime period, the teams will play a
sudden-death final period; i.e., the winning team is the first team to
score.
- Except for Rules adopted by NABA, PIAA basketball rules will apply to
all League games (regular season and playoffs).
Rules Applicable to 7th – 12th Grade Leagues:
- Each game will consist of two 20-minute halves.
- Each team must field five players. However, during the inhouse season,
no team will forfeit a game because it is unable to field five players if
the two scheduled teams for a game have a total of 10 players in attendance.
The team with more than five players must provide enough players to the
other team to enable both teams to play five-on-five. If there are an
insufficient number of players to play five-on-five, both teams will play
with less than five, but with an equal number of, players; e.g.,
four-on-four. During playoff (post-inhouse) games, PIAA rules apply and each
team must field five players from its team roster at the start of a game. If
a team cannot field five players within 10 minutes after the scheduled start
time of a playoff game, that team must forfeit the game.
- Each player must play approximately the same amount of time as every
other player. Each player must sit out at least five minutes of each half
unless the team does not have a sufficient number of players to abide by
this rule.
- Teams may play man-to-man or zone defense, or any other defense or
combination (man and zone) defense selected by the team coach.
- Any team leading by 10 or more points may not full-court press the
trailing team.
- Any player serving an in-school suspension, an out-of-school suspension
or social probation may not play for his or her team during the period of
the suspension.
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