Due to COVID-19, NBNSA has organized guidelines for return to play in alignment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health department guidelines applicable to procedures for youth indoor sports. These guidelines will continue to evolve as the guidelines for our state and local municipality are updated. 

• All Staff, Scorekeepers and Coaches are required to wear a mask while in the facility. 
• Referees are required to wear a mask and gloves officiating. 
• All fans over the age of three MUST wear a mask & maintain social distance (6 feet) from non-family members.
• Players MUST wear masks at all times including while playing as well as entering and leaving the facility.
• Hand sanitizer will be available at all score tables. All players are required to sanitize their hands before and after each game. Game Balls will be sanitized before, during and after each game.
• Coaches will refrain from yelling at officials during Covid-19 protocol. Any face to face arguing by an official or a coach will result in an expulsion from the event! 
• NBNSA will add additional time between games for staff to clean & sanitize the space. 
• Temperatures will be taken before entering the facility
  • If temperature is greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the athlete will wait for 10 minutes, masked in a shaded area and temperature will be rechecked. 
  • If temperature remains above 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, they will be directed to leave campus and will wait in a designated shaded area until their transportation arrives.
• NBNSA encourages individuals considered "high risk" to please stay home.
• Only 1 parent per player allowed in. 
• Teams, coaches, and their fans must depart the facility directly after their game ends. There will be NO post-game bench/coach meetings. 
• Teams and coaches will enter the facility/gym no earlier than 15 minutes before their games (even if 1st game of the day). 
• Fans will NOT be permitted to enter the facility any earlier than 10 minutes prior to game time. This will allow plenty of time to get a seat within social distancing rules. 
• There will be NO pre or post-game handshaking and NO player will extend a hand to help another player up. 
• Individual sessions will be NO more than 90 minutes with most sessions being 1 hour. For sessions longer than 90 minutes, they will be treated as individual sessions with a 15-minute break when all athletes and participants will exit the facility.
• Sanitizing stations will be set up throughout the facility
• NBNSA will sanitize and disinfect everything after each night.
• No outside balls are permitted. 
• Players, coaches, or staff will not be allowed to participate if they have tested positive and have an active infection for COVID-19 or have any of the symptoms of COVID-19. Also, they cannot participate if they have been in contact with anyone who has tested positive and has active infection for COVID-19 or has any of the symptoms of COVID-19 within 14 days. Players, coaches, and staff will complete a health questionnaire daily prior to any session.
• During water breaks and timeouts, players and coaches will maintain social distance of 6-feet. Upon arrival, player’s bags and their water bottles will be placed six feet apart and they will return to their bag/water bottle for the water break. They will also sanitize their hands at that time. Water breaks will be at least every 20 minutes.
• NBNSA will follow all other State and DIAA COVID-19 guidelines.

"We are still here and NOT giving up basketball." 

—Coach Lonnie Wright, founder NBNSA