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"... A player who receives the ball while he is progressing must release the ball to start his dribble before his fifth step." I guess this is a typo but I couldn't find the original source. In ^[1] on page 108 there is no talk about any fifth step. I'm not a native english speaker and thus might have misunderstood something. Nuke160 (talk) 17:53, 30 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As ref#2[1] points out, "The section of the NBA rulebook dealing with traveling used to allow players to "use a two-count rhythm in coming to a stop." It was reworded this season to say players "may take two steps in coming to a stop, passing or shooting the ball." This article still quotes the obsolete version. See, instead, [2], particularly p. 37. Andyvphil (talk) 07:00, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The NBA travelling rules changed again in 2019. [3] Crumley (talk) 15:54, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The comment about referees commonly ignoring travelling is given without citation, nor is it entirely accurate. Though I cannot recall the exact wording of the rules, it's related to something on the order of 1-1/2 steps. Hopefully someone with more initiative can check on this.

Before you put the ball on the floor to dribble or after you pick up your dribble, you can pivot on either foot. If you lift your pivot foot, you must pass or shoot before you put it back on the floor. This is why it's legal to do things like an "up-and-under" move, pull up for a jump shot after you've picked your dribble up, the sky hook, a fadeaway, or a pivot hook. This rule applies to high school ball, college, nba, and most other leagues.Altarbo 03:16, 22 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"Lifting the pivot foot alone does not constitute a travel; a player may pass, shoot, or call a timeout in that position. It is a travel once the foot is returned to the floor, or if a dribble is started." I'm confused why is this quote in the myths section of that page. I thought it was allowed according to nba.com's rules on traveling: "If a player, with the ball in his possession, raises his pivot foot off the floor, he must pass or shoot before his pivot foot returns to the floor. If he drops the ball while in the air, he may not be the first to touch the ball." http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_10.html?nav=ArticleList I just wanted someone to look into this and clear the confusion.

-- Maybe the confusion is the way that section is called "Myths". Is each sentence a myth, or the counterstatement to some myth? This should be fixed.

--The myth comes from the fact that people believe it is automatically a travel if a player lifts the pivot foot. As you referenced it is NOT a travel as a player can shoot, pass, or request a timeout before returning the pivot foot and it would not be a travel. The only instance where lifting a pivot foot is an immediate travel is if the pivot foot is lifted/moved before the ball is released to start a dribble. This is true at all levels of play. AllPurposeGamer (talk) 20:13, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Quoting the entire NCAA or NBA rules within this article is a violation of copyright. The rules must be summarized and/or reworded just as we would do with any other source material. Kaldari (talk) 22:15, 22 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"NBA Slam Dunk Contest, which isn’t a game,' -- How and why is the slam-dunk contest not a game?Kdammers (talk) 03:18, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I remember when I was in the Fifth Grade in California the late 1960s, seeing one of those unintentionally humorous P.E. training films they used to show us, teaching the basics of basketball fouls and penalties. In that particular film, they used the term "Progressing" instead of "traveling" for this same infraction. I was pretty uninformed about sports in general at that time, so wouldn't have known any different, but a great many of the Fifth and Sixth grade boys present hooted and derided the term: "PROGRESSING?!?!? it's TRAVELING!"

I have never heard the term "progressing" anywhere since, and I wonder where in the world it came from, to have been so authoritatively attested in one of those self-important training films of that era.

B. Polhemus (talk) 19:39, 6 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The first part of this article states that NBA & FIBA allow for a "gather step" - but, the words "gather step" don't appear anywhere in the NBA & FIBA rules section. It makes no sense. At least take those words out of quotation marks if you aren't directly quoting the rules. It's not clear which of the rules allows for the "gather step", or what exactly that term means. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepfryer99 (talk • contribs) 18:33, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]