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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
No, it is not.
The purpose is to prevent teams from taking advantage of a safety situation to prolong a time-out in order to gain extra rest.
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Those clean-ups occur while the 5 players are already out on the court, so there is nothing to prolong. It interrupts restarting the game. "Extra rest"
NCAA game out with the rule first, explicitly to keep players from drinking water on the court because of the delays that occurred when they spilled, and the NFHS added the rule a couple years later.