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Old Tue Mar 23, 2021, 04:21pm
BillyMac BillyMac is offline
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Intent And Purpose Clause ...

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Originally Posted by Raymond View Post
NBA expects its officials to use common sense.
As do our high school, and college assigners. Even if there is an "intent and purpose" clause in the NBA rulebook, like there is in the high school rulebook (not sure about college) there must be a definition of self-pass in the NBA rulebook. How's it defined? What's the violation? Travel? Illegal dribble? Self-pass? Something else?

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... hypothetical what-ifs ...
Hypothetical what-ifs and extreme examples gauge the clarity and comprehensiveness of the written rules. We see this all the time here on the Forum, especially in regard to testing the limits of high school rules (where we can't even get a definition of "opponent" in regard to distracting a free thrower).
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