Basketball five fouls off the court is a FIBA rule, is to limit basketball players fouls indiscriminately, to prevent the impact of the smoothness of the basketball game and the ornamental.

The five-foul rule is used in major international tournaments and most national basketball leagues, but the NBA uses the six-foul rule because an NBA game lasts 48 minutes, which is eight minutes longer than other basketball games.

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Sports characteristics

1, confrontational: Basketball can be long or short in duration, but it requires participants to run fast, sudden and continuous jumping, agile reaction and force, volume, resistance.

2, collective: basketball not only requires athletes to have technical and tactical ability, as well as in the game show wisdom, courage, will, vitality and creativity, athletes must also have a brave and tenacious fighting spirit and the spirit of solidarity and cooperation.

3, ornamental: basketball games, you can appreciate the skillful dribbling, clever passing, accurate shooting, witty steals, wonderful dunks and surprising cover, coupled with the staggered offense and defense, confrontation change, so that the game both sides of the battle of wits and courage, the stadium situation changes in the dramatic, can make the participants and the viewers to get the psychological satisfaction and pleasure.

4, fun: Basketball is simple and easy to do, very interesting, can be different from person to person, from place to place, from time to time, according to need. By changing various activities, basketball is more convenient and attractive to people's participation, in order to achieve the purpose of active body and mind, fitness and physical fitness, and then improve the civilized atmosphere of society, enriching people's amateur cultural and recreational life.

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