NBA Basketball Scoreboard

Scoreboard Setup

This preset uses a countdown timer with four 12-minute quarters, matching official NBA timing. The board tracks each team's score, current quarter, team fouls (bonus after 5), and timeouts remaining. Fouls matter for free throw tracking: after the 5th team foul in a quarter, every subsequent foul sends the opponent to the free throw line.

Key Rules at a Glance

Project the Board Onto the Gym Wall

Running an NBA-rules pickup league, training session or pro-am exhibition in a school gym or rec centre? ScoreCounter doubles as a projected scoreboard: connect a laptop to any HDMI projector, open the live page full-screen on the empty wall behind the basket, and the venue gets a 12-minute quarter clock, both team scores, team fouls and the 24-second shot clock that reads cleanly from anywhere on the court. The admin tablet on the scorer's table drives every change. It's the cheapest way to give a casual gym the production feel of an NBA broadcast board.

Run the Board From the Admin Preview

The admin page shows a live preview of the scoreboard with click controls baked into every active section, so a full game can be driven from the preview alone, without going back to the side panel.

Anything that reacts to a click turns the cursor into a pointer and brightens on hover, so the interactive zones are obvious without trial and error. Press the Full Screen button on the admin page to hide every panel except the board itself. A small floating toolbar stays pinned at the bottom of the screen with a fullscreen toggle marked F11, zoom out, a reset-zoom button showing the current percentage and the Ctrl -/+ hint, zoom in, and a close button. The same laptop now doubles as the venue display while the operator keeps driving the game through the preview clicks. The site logo at the top left always links back to the home page, so you can jump between match, tournament or standings tools without losing your place.

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