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Originally Posted by Raymond
... we're not going to debate every minuscule possible detail aspect to NBA rules enforcement
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We often do this for high school rules, and occasionally for college rules, why not rarely for NBA rules? Because few if any Forum members officiate professional level games? We do have a few members with some knowledge of NBA rules (maybe so cal lurker, plus a Forum member who's two sons officiate at the professional level).
The concept of (especially high school) "self passes" pops up occasionally here on the Forum. Often answered by comments like, "No such thing by NFHS definition" (citing
4-31: A pass is movement of the ball caused by a player who throws, bats or rolls the ball to another player), often ending the discussion so we often never get to study the legality of something that doesn't even truly exist according to the NFHS.
Apparently the NBA does broach the concept of self passes (according to so cal lurker). That why I wanted to extrapolate to NBA rules involving self passes to see what's going on two gigantic levels above my pay grade. How does the NBA "handle" self-passes? What's the violation? Travel? Illegal dribble? Self-pass? Something else? Why do they broach the term while the NFHS denies its existence?
Also, I like the term self pass, it's easily understandable, even if it doesn't exist according NFHS rules. Certainly no harm in using self pass as a generic term to describe a certain act, or situation? Right?