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The NBA and its Rules

There are many things you must know about a sport, like the do’s and the don’ts. In basketball it is obvious what the purpose of the game is, but there are many things people don’t know. Basketball has plenty of rules for its players, on the court and off. Many people don’t know how the actions of players can cause them to be ejected from a basketball game.
One way to be ejected from a game is hard fouling. Hard fouling can lead to flagrant or technical fouls called by the referees. Two flagrant fouls or two technical by any play leads to an ejection. If the player gets a flagrant grade two foul, he is automatically ejected and must go to the locker room or leave the arena. A flagrant foul is unnecessary contact committed by a player against an opponent, and a level two flagrant is unnecessary and excessive contact committed by a player against an opponent. Technical fouls can be given by delay of game or unsportsmanlike conduct. If one stops the ball from being put into play, or failing to immediately pass the ball to the nearest official when a personal foul or violation is assessed a technical will be called on him.
This is an example of a flagrant foul that happened recently in this summers’ playoff game during game four of Los Angeles Lakers’ and Orlando Magic. Pau Gasol received a pass from Trevor Ariza for an open two-hand dunk. Out of nowhere, Orlando’s Mickael Pietrus flew into the picture, Gasol went up, and Pietrus laid a hit on Gasol right in the middle of his back. Gasol ran up to Pietrus after landing on the ground. The two faced off as teammates and referees got in-between them. Pietrus was given a flagrant grade one foul while Gasol received a technical foul. The reason being is Pietrus made unnecessary contact with Gasol, while Gasol jumped back up in Pietrus’s face showing unsportsmanlike conduct. Gasol was not suspended for any games or fined. Pietrus wouldn’t get any further discipline for his frustration foul either. Also in this summers’ game one in the playoffs between Dallas Mavericks and Denver Nuggets, there controversy about the technical foul that Kenyon Martin received. During the game Martin played some physical defense on Dirk Nowitzki, got whistled for a foul, and then shoved Dirk to the ground once the play was over. When the referees got together and questioned if it was a flagrant level one or two, or a technical. Martin received a technical, because the referees called it unsportsmanlike conduct since. Fans argue with the call and wanted it to be a flagrant one or two, but it wasn’t a flagrant because the ball was not in play. The next day Kenyon martin was fined $25,000 dollars for that foul. My final example is when Kendrick Perkins was ejected in the fourth quarter of Friday's game between Boston and Detroit after being called for a pulling Detroit's Jason Maxiell to the floor by the neck while Maxiell was trying to put back an offensive rebound. Maxiell got up and shoved Perkins, and was given a technical foul, while Perkins was called for a flagrant-2 foul, which brings an automatic ejection. Since Maxiell received a technical for unsportsmanlike conduct by pushing him back.
Another way players can get ejected is when they argue back at the referees. Usually a player tries to discuss a bad call with the referee but ends up yelling at them. Back in 2002 Rasheed Wallace got called for his third personal foul and started arguing with the referee, knowing he has already picked up one technical foul and should stop. Teammates tried to calm him down but he turned around and still argued and received his second technical by throwing a towel in one referee's face, earning a two-game suspension and a $10,000 fine, and threatened another referee and received a seven-game suspension. In this next example during a regular season game, James Posey was ejected from the New Orleans' vs. Knicks game because, in the fourth quarter after throwing the ball at referee Gary Zielinski. Zielinski quickly signaled a technical foul and threw Posey out of the game. Later that week Posey was fined $15,000 for hitting the referee.
Getting ejected from the game can be very effective towards the team, the player being ejected, and the fans. An ejection could cause a turnaround in a game. If one of the best players on a team gets ejected then the team will lose its best player and momentum. Plus losing your best player wouldn’t help winning the game at all. Fans would be very upset, especially if it’s a bad call, and they paid money to see the game or a player. Finally if a player gets ejected of course he would be upset because he is getting paid to play the game and is getting thrown out for a mistake, but he also gets fined or suspended which no player ever wants. Basically getting ejected is very upsetting for everyone that’s involved in the game on the player’s team but the referees are the ones enforcing the rules of the game and they must deal with the call.