Technical foul

36.1.1

The proper conduct of the game demands the full and loyal cooperation of the players, head coaches, assistant coaches, substitutes, excluded players and accompanying delegation members with the referees, table officials and commissioner, if present.

36.1.2

Each team shall do its best to secure victory, but this must be done in the spirit of sportsmanship and fair play.

36.1.3

Any deliberate or repeated non-cooperation or non-compliance with the spirit and intent of this rule shall be considered as a technical foul.

36.1.4

The referees may prevent technical fouls by giving warnings or even overlooking minor infractions which are obviously unintentional and have no direct effect upon the game, unless there is repetition of the same infraction after the warning.

36.1.5

If an infraction is recognised after the ball becomes live, the game shall be stopped and a technical foul charged. The penalty shall be administered as if the technical foul had occurred at the time it is charged. Whatever occurred during the interval between the infraction and the game being stopped shall remain valid.

36.2.1

Technical fouls are divided into two categories, according to their nature and severity level. A category 1 technical foul shall count towards the game disqualification, a category 2 technical foul shall not count towards the game disqualification. Category 1 technical fouls by a player may be non-contact or contact fouls of a behavioural nature including, but not limited to:

• Disrespectfully dealing and/or communicating with the referees, the commissioner, if present, the table officials, the opponents or persons permitted to sit on the team benches.
• Using language or gestures likely to offend or incite the spectators.
• Baiting, taunting or provoking an opponent, including a contact with the hands, arms, body or the ball which does not rise to the level of a flagrant or a disqualifying foul.
• Obstructing the vision of an opponent by waving/placing the hand(s) near the opponent’s eyes.
• Excessive swinging of elbows without contact.
• Fake being fouled. Category 2 technical fouls by a player may be non-contact fouls of a behavioural or administrative nature including, but not limited to:
• Delaying the game by deliberately touching the ball after it passes through the basket or by preventing a throw-in or a free throw from being taken promptly or coming on the court late to start the game or the second half.
• Hanging on the ring in such a way that the weight of the player is supported by the ring, unless a player grasps the ring momentarily following a dunk shot or is trying to prevent injury to any player.
• Goaltending during the last free throw by a defensive player. The offensive team shall be awarded 1 point, followed by the technical foul penalty charged against the defensive player.

36.2.2

A technical foul by any person permitted to sit on the team bench is a category 1 foul for disrespectfully communicating with or touching the referees, the commissioner, if present, the table officials or the opponents, or an infraction of a procedural or an administrative nature.

36.2.3

A player shall be disqualified for the remainder of the game (game disqualification) when charged with:

• two category 1 technical fouls, or
• two flagrant fouls, or
• one category 1 technical foul and one flagrant foul.

36.2.4

A head coach shall be disqualified for the remainder of the game (game disqualification) when charged with:

• two category 1 technical fouls ('C') as a result of a personal unsportsmanlike behaviour.
• three category 1 technical fouls, either all of them ('B') or ('BD') or one of them ('C'), as a result of the unsportsmanlike behaviour of other persons permitted to sit on the team bench.

36.2.5

If a player or a head coach is disqualified under Articles 36.2.3 or 36.2.4, that technical foul shall be the only foul to be penalised and no additional penalty for the game disqualification shall be administered.

36.3.1

If a technical foul is committed:

• By a player, a technical foul, irrespective of the category, shall be charged as a player foul and shall count as one of the team fouls.
• By any person permitted to sit on the team bench, a category 1 technical foul shall be charged against the head coach and shall not count as one of the team fouls.

36.3.2

The opponents shall be awarded 1 free throw. The game shall be resumed as follows:

• The free throw shall be administered immediately. After the free throw, the throw-in shall be administered by the team which had control of the ball or was entitled to the ball when the technical foul was committed, from the place nearest to where the ball was located when the game was stopped.
• The free throw shall also be administered immediately, regardless of whether the order of any other possible penalties for any other fouls has been determined or whether the administration of the penalties has been started. After the free throw for a technical foul, the game shall be resumed by the team which had control of the ball or was entitled to the ball when the technical foul was committed, from the place where the game has been interrupted for the technical foul penalty.
• If a valid goal or a last free throw is scored, the game shall be resumed with a throw-in from any place behind the endline.
• If neither team had control of the ball nor was entitled to the ball, a jump ball situation occurs.
• With a jump ball in the centre circle at the start of the first quarter.