FIBA or NBA

FIBA

Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateu
International Basketball Federation

Actually i prefer the FIBA rules than the NBA rules. i know is hard to tell the different between them. But they are different. To me, NBA is for entertainment and FIBA is more serious play. But both are serious. hehe. Even i play for 8 years of basketball career in school, i don't know all the rules. Only the offer rules called, i know.
There is a huge different in playing and refereeing. And usually refereeing is the hardest. i referee before and is not easy. Cause you are seeing 10 people on the court constantly moving even you have 3 other ref's to help you. And if you follow this year Olympics. there are so many calls that many of you might not know what the call is. Cause FIBA is more strict on the rules. Every 3-4 seconds sure there is a call, sometimes on travel, carry, off'def foul, 3 sec, and many more. Well this is FIBA.

I'm not a huge fan of the NBA. But i do watch the NBA cause astro hardly shows international basketball or college ball. i watch the NBA on how they play one on one or how they play tactics or how they run fast-breaks. NBA is just very entertaining.
here are the NBA rules
http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_index.html

So here i give you a copy of the FIBA rules this year update.
http://www.fiba.com/downloads/Rules/2008/OfficialBasketballRules2008.pdf

If you want to know how to referee a game(FIBA)
http://www.fiba.com/downloads/Rules/2008/TwoPersonOfficiating2008.pdf

Hope you guys got Adobe to read the rules. More details is at www.fiba.com

NBA
National Basketball Association

Basketball forever,