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Dunk Shot #3
Basketball Painting
Basketball Art by John Robertson
50" X 70" acrylic/latex
on unstretched canvas

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In basketball, timeouts can be called by both players and the coach. In American college basketball, each team is allowed four time-outs per twenty-minute half. In the National Basketball Association, teams are allowed one 20-second timeout per half, and six regular timeouts over the course of the entire game. Additionally, in the NBA, the team is allowed a maximum of three timeouts in the 4th quarter and two timeouts in the final two minutes of play, regardless of how many timeouts have been used prior. Under both college and NBA rules, if a team calls a timeout when it has none left, the team will be assessed a technical foul and lose possession of the ball. The most famous incident of this rule happened during the 1993 NCAA championship game when Chris Webber, playing for the University of Michigan Wolverines, called a time-out with 11 seconds left in the game. The technical foul thus received secured the game victory for the opponents, the University of North Carolina. A similar episode happened in a 2008 game between the Phoenix Suns and the Seattle SuperSonics, when Sonics forward Wally Szczerbiak, with his team trailing by one in the final 15 seconds, called a timeout that the Sonics didn't have, after not being able to inbound the ball in 5 seconds. The mistake costed the Sonics possession and the game, being defeated 103-99.