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NBA social media guidelines out

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The NBA formally announced its new social media guidelines Wednesday, informing teams through a league memorandum that the use of cell phones, PDAs and other electronic communications devices -- and thus accessing Twitter, Facebook and similar social media sites -- is now prohibited during games for players, coaches and other team personnel involved in the game. The league has defined "during games" as the period of time beginning 45 minutes before the opening tip and ending "after the postg ...

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