Welpe's wish is granted.
 

Hey, do you think we get paid for having fun? :D
wanna get paid? you gotta bring the change.

My town's rec director says there are four types of people in sports: players, coaches, officials, and spectators. Ninety percent of the problems arise when one category tries to be another.

After looking over the thread APG posted, I can see Nevada's point. The technical foul is not necessarily to punish the incident, but to discourage the behavior. You can't discourage such behavior without consequences.

The closest thing I have to this sitch is in a U-14 boys' soccer game in October. A kid got hurt, and his mom blew right past the A/R on the sideline toward the center of the field. The center referee told her she had to leave (the kid wasn't hurt that badly), and out came the "but I'm his mother!" arguments. The opposing coach -- on the line I was working -- loudly insisted we can't have parents on the field.

That really comes down to my point. Rules are agreements, and in the aforementioned case, it was indeed agreed upon by that league that parents will not come on the field, for any reason. If we generally agree that the same should be the case in basketball, then most of us would have no problem here penalizing any such court-entry actions.

Ultimately, it sounds like a case where Roman Law reigns supreme.

Stand aside, wait until the player is removed, resume game.

Otherwise, there's nothing else to do unless the parent proves he/she can't be rational.

'Twas I that posted the thread. ;)

And I've never heard of anyone issuing a T in this situation (parent is taking care of kid and nothing toward me)...Nevada is literally the first person I've seen suggest that route.

Fixed it, APG. Thanks.

Had this problem at a varsity girl's tournament this summer. Girl goes down in a heap; coach and trainer come onto the court to tend to her, followed shortly by the father. As the father walks by my partner, he says something akin to "If you'd call the game right, this wouldn't happen."

I called the tournament director over and had her remove the dad from the gym. We had no problem with dad coming onto the court, but once he opened his mouth to us, he was not going to hang around to see the rest of the game.

Assuming that the parent is the player's parent (or guardian), then I beckon them on. And I don't care where they are, I still beckon, even if they're already on the court.

We had one of these cases 3 years ago. The young official told the local association that the reason he didn't quit was because the other official did "take care of business" (paraphrasing to match your comment).

HaHahahahahahahaha!!!!

Always laugh at Bob's jokes

Hard to tazer a person when I cannot run that fast to catch a person thanks to my bum knee.

Parent comes on the floor, evaluate the need for the parent on the floor and act accordingly.

I thought that's why you had a posse.

TASERS have great range, so that shouldn't be a problem from the table. I suppose though you could always transition to an LRAD.

There's a difference between being tripped, and tripping ...
 

What's the call if a player trips over the parent?

I assume that the parent and child go to the same school, so I've got nothing. Since when did night school students become eligible, anyway?