The nba can have 18 a game
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.. Each team is allowed 7 long timeouts, 2 short stops, and 3 additional long timeouts if there is 1 overtime period between the teams.
The game timeout is for the head coach of each team to adjust the team's playing style, timely guidance, to interrupt the opponent's scoring momentum, to let the players get a rest, to let the technical desk on the technical statistics for checking, but also for the TV broadcasters in the timeout to interrupt the advertisement, so as to earn advertising fees. But the timeout is not too long, so as to avoid affecting the spectacle of the game.
The NBA's long timeout is 100 seconds, and the corresponding short stop is 20 seconds.The NBA currently allocates one short stop per team in each half, with no additional short stops in overtime, and short stops can only be requested in two situations: when "a dead ball is formed on the court" or when "the team has possession of the ball". A second stoppage in the half can only be requested if "a dead ball is formed on the field" or "the team has possession of the ball". If a second stop is requested at halftime or when the game is in overtime, the team requesting the stop will be deducted a long timeout.
Accordingly, 100-second long timeouts are scheduled by each team, but there will also be 2 official timeouts spread around the sixth and ninth minutes of a single quarter, called by the field recorders for televised broadcasts and technical table adjustments, and counted against the home team and the visiting team in that order. Each team can still call the required seven long timeouts after they've been used for the entire game, though each call results in a blown technical foul, allowing the opponent to make a technical free throw. Warriors superstar Curry then called his eighth timeout in the fourth quarter of a G4 game against the Kings in the first round of the 2022-2023 playoffs, and the team was penalized.
There are some additional conventions for long timeouts - each team can call no more than four long timeouts in the fourth quarter of a game, and each team can take no more than three timeouts in the final two minutes of the fourth quarter - that need to be remembered by the head coach and assistant coaches.
