Official Basketball Rules

Official basketball rules are usually found at the home of the NBA, and there are quite a lot of them. It might be a bit confusing at first, but if you take your time going through them, it will all sort itself out in the end. That same observation would apply to the official NCAA basketball rules, which are in many respects similar to the NBA. Of course all rules and regulations do tend to have slight variations and housekeeping changes. Thing is, if you keep up to date with the official rules and regulations, you'll have a better chance of understanding what a rule or regulation change will mean.

If you are more into wanting to know stuff about the official high school basketball rules, then you'd want to be asking a local high school coach for a loan from his or her library. All coaches will have the rules and regulations handbooks for use when they're coaching. They have to have them on hand, or they could get into hot water without having an official high school basketball rule handbook.

For the game of basketball in general, basketball official rules can be found on the Internet and shared with your friends and fellow game addicts. You might even be interested in the College basketball official rule handbook and companion regulations information.

You know, it's really amazing how far basketball has come from its inception in 1891. It originally only had 13 rules. Of course today there are way more than 13, which makes you wonder if all of them are really necessary. The original 13 seemed to work back in 1891, and for the longest time after that. What ever happened to cause the rules to become so complicated and at times convoluted really makes you wonder.

Some of the original rules were: you could throw a ball in any direction with one or both hands bat it in any direction but could not use a fist. No running with the ball was allowed, the ball was to be held in or between the hands only, and no shouldering, holding, pushing or other interference was to happen to the opposing team members.

It was a foul to strike at the ball and if you read the rule books today, the numbers and kinds of fouls sure can be confusing. And that's the whole thing, the game although it retains many of its original elements, has evolved into something that very likely its inventor would either not recognize or would ask why things are so complex. There's an old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So did the original game need fixing? Good question.