backcourt- kobe, lakers game

[Nevadaref]

Originally Posted by lpbreeze

from what I thought it is a backcourt if the defender hits it but if it hits the offensive player again and then goes into the backcourt it is a violation in high school and NCAA. So the NBA doesn't have that rule? Kind of makes sense to me actually. but whatever lakers lose.

In the NBA team control ends when a defender knocks the ball away. They have a concept called a "loose ball" that the NCAA and NFHS rules do not. Thus there is no backcourt violation during this "loose ball" in an NBA game.

This is the very reason that so many fans wrongly scream at the NCAA and NFHS officials when they correctly call a bc violation after the defender knocks the ball off of the dribbler's leg. In this case, you are doing the opposite and approaching an NBA game while thinking that the NCAA and NFHS rule applies. It doesn't.