Officiating: NBA Style!

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In case anyone's wondering, I'm not talking about NBA officiating itself.

Last weekend, I got a call from a guy to help out with an adult league that was running at his gym. I was familiar with both the league (I played in it), the gym (I reffed and coached in it) and the guy (fellow referee) so I told him I would help out.

However, there was some major differences that this adult league had versus others. This league used NBA rules for the game. This included 8-second backcourt counts, 24 second shot clock, no backcourt until 2 minutes left in the 4th quarter, etc, etc.

Without getting into all the details, the hardest part was not having the 5-second count on the perimeter (so used to counting on everything). In fact, I forgot about the 5-second "back to the basket" count.

If anyone's curious what else I went though, feel free to read my blog below. However, I was curious if anyone's worked any games under NBA or NBA-styled rules?