What is holding in basketball?

I think your thinking of FOOTBALL there's NO call in basketball called "holding" you can hold someone In basketball but the ref well call foul ...

When you hold the player with your arms/hands to prevent him from moving.

The foul ''holding'' in basketball is when you are guarding some player and lets say they get past you and you hold onto their jersey, shorts, hand, etc.

holding foul is an illegal use of hand foul

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