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Old Thu Jan 25, 2018, 03:57pm
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Originally Posted by Rich View Post
Yes.

Consecutive timeouts after time expires in regulation or at the end of an extra period are not allowed.
I have to imagine that this rule is in place to prevent the endless icing of the free-throw shooter. That means in some game, long long ago, a coach must have called three or four timeouts and dragged the end of the game out by five agonizing minutes. Chances are this rule was added not long after.
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