National Basketball Association latest to ban usage of social networks during games

National Basketball Association latest to ban usage of social networks during games

National Basketball Association has become the latest sports body to ban the usage of social networks like Facebook and Twitter during games.

NBA has updated their social media guidelines and these are applicable to both teams and players.

They have sent these new guidelines to all 30 teams on Wednesday.

The memo states: “During games, the use of cell phones, PDAs, other electronic communication devices, and social media or networking sites (including Twitter, Facebook and other sites and services) by coaches, players and other team basketball operations personnel is prohibited.”

This ban would be applicable from 45 minutes before the start of each game and would be on till the end of the post-game media interviews.