FIBA Unsportsmanlikes

[Pantherdreams]

Based on the 2010 rule modifications fouls in the final two minutes prior to the inbounding of the basketball are automatically unsportsmanlike. I can find video's explaining the rule modification and the slide show compliment. I cannot though find the actual rule in the rule book modified or otherwise.

Looking for a reference number before needing to go to my clinic and ask there.

[JugglingReferee]

I do not see it listed either.

[ref3309]

It is in the 2010 Interpretations manual as follows:
ART. 36 UNSPORTSMANLIKE FOUL
Statement 1
During the last two (2) minutes of the fourth period and during the last two (2) minutes of each extra period, the ball is out-of-bounds for a throw-in and still in the hands of the official or already at the disposal of the player taking the throw-in. If at this moment a defensive player on the playing court causes contact with a player of the offensive team on the playing court and a foul is called, it is an unsportsmanlike foul.
Hope this helps.

[Ref_in_Alberta]

Also is the Canadian Association of Basketball Official's (CABO) 2011 case book. Page 49 case 36-2.

Case book available at CABO CANADA

[constable]

I like the rule change. Previously any foul committed while inbounding was unsporting.

[Pantherdreams]

I don't dislike the rule interp. Though I think officials would be able to determine and unsporting attempt to foul with the time stopped and accidental illegal contact. I do dislike having to call what I would normally call holding or an accidental trip or block in the first 38 minutes and unsportsmanlike in the last 2. I also know that to avoid calling it you get a lot of patient whistle defenses by officials and teams in the last 2 minutes and inbounds become a war if they officials are trying to avoid having to call the unsportsmanlike.

My larger concern was that we've got a rule interp for a rule that appears in all the literature except the rule book.