Basketball Definitions 15 Footer 2 Pointer 2-3 Zone Defense 2-For-1 24-Second Violation 3-Second Violation 5-Second Violation 8-Second Violation Air Ball All Day Alley-Oop Amoeba Defense Another Alley Oop Assist Assist Percentage Assists Per Game Back Screen Backboard Backcourt Backcourt Violation Backdoor Cut Ball Ball Fake Ball Handler Ball Hog Ball Reversal Baller Banana Cut Bank Shot Baseball Pass Baseline Baseline drive Basket Basket Interference Basketball Beating The Defender Being Active Around The Rim Bench Bench Points Between-the-Iegs-dribble Big Man Bird Rights Block City Block Out Block Percentage Blocking Blocking Foul Bounce Pass Box Out Box-And-One Defense Boxing out Breaking Ankles Brick Bricklayer Bucket Bump The Cutter Bunny Bury Buzzer Beater Carrying Center Charge Charging Foul Charity Stripe Chase Down Block Cherry Picking Chest Pass Clear Out Clear-Path Foul Close-Out Coast-To-Coast Combo Guard Continuity Offense Controlling The Boards Court Court Vision Crashing The Boards Creating His Own Shot Crossover Crossover dribble Crunch Time Dagger Dead Ball Foul Dead-Ball Rebound Defensive Foul Defensive Rating Defensive Rebound Defensive Win Shares Deny the Ball Dime Dipsy Doo Disabled Player Exception Double Bonus Double Double Double dribble Double Dribble Double foul Double Nickel Double Pump Double Rim Double team Down Screen Downtown Draft Dribble Dribble Drive Motion Dribbling Drop Step Dropping Dimes Dunk Effective Field Goal Percentage Elbow Empty The Bench Fadeaway Fake Fast break Fast Break Field Goal Field Goal Percentage Fifteen Footer Finger Roll Flagrant 2 Foul Flagrant Foul Flex Offense Floater Flop Forfeited game Forwards Foul Trouble Four-Point Play Franchise Player Free Throw Lane Frontcourt Frozen Rope Get Back Glass Cleaner Goaltending Goaltending Granny Shot Green Light Guards Gunner Hack Hack-A-Shaq Half-Court Defense Half-Court Offense Hamptons Five Hand-Checking Handles Hang Time Heating Up Held Ball Help Side Defense High Percentage Shot High Post Hook Shot Hops Illegal Screen In The Paint In-N-Out Inbounds Inbounds Pass Incidental Contact Intentional Foul Interference Iso Jab Step Jump Ball Jump Hook Jump shot Jump Shot Key Kick It Out Lane Lane Violation Lay up Lay-In Layup Legal guarding position Live ball Loose Ball Loose Ball Foul Loose Foul Low Percentage Shot Low Post Making It Rain Man-to-Man Man-To-Man Defense Mid-Level Exception Mid-Range Jump Shot Motion Offense Moving Violation MVP NBA Nellie Ball No-look pass Offensive Foul Offensive Rebound Offensive Rebounds Per Game Officials On The Bench One-And-Done One-And-One Out of bound Outlet Pass Over The Back Over The Limit Over-And-Back Violation Overhead pass Overhead Pass Overtime Pace Factor Pack-Line Defense Palming Passing lanes Perimeter Personal Foul Personal Foul Pick and Pop Pivot Playmaker Point Forward Point Guard Points In The Paint Points Per Game Possession Arrow Possession indicator Post Up Posterize Power Dribble Power Forward Princeton Offense Pump Fake Pure Shooter Push The Ball Putback Putback Dunk Putting on a Clinic Quadruple-Double Rainbow Shot Rainmaker Rating Percentage Index Reach-In Foul Reach-In Foul Rebound Rebound Rebounds Per Game Redshirt Rejected Restricted Area Rimshot Role Player Run and Gun Offense Running The Point Scoring Screen Second Chance Points Set Shot Shooting Foul Shooting Guard Shot clock Shot Clock Violation Sixth Man Skyhook Slam dunk Small Ball Small Forward Splash Square Up Starting Stretch Five Stretch Forward Stretch Four Strong side Strong Side Stuff Stutter Step Substitutes Swingman Swish Take It To The Hole Team Foul Technical Foul Ten-second rule The Glass The Splash Brothers Three in the Key Three Point Play Three-Point Field Goal Three-point shot Three-second rule Three-Second Violation Ticky Tack Foul Time Tip-In Traffic Transition Defense Transition Offense Traveling Triangle Offense Basketball Articles Who Has The Biggest Hands In The NBA? What Are The Positions In Basketball? How Much Does A Basketball Weigh? How Long Does A Game of Basketball Last? When Does The Basketball Season Usually Finish? When Does The Basketball Season Usually Start? How Many Teams Have Competed In The NBA? What Is The Average Height of a Basketball Player in the NBA? Is Basketball A Contact Sport? The History of Basketball What is a Foul in Basketball? How Many Players Are There On A Basketball Team?