When you say that you have "no intention of going through a thread and removing dozens of personal remarks -- now or in the future" is like punishing a whole classroome for one black sheep making trouble.
I taught it was the role of a moderator to differenciate between what is acceptable to be written in this forum and what is not.
Too bad. There were certainly things to be learned in that thread.
Anyway, I submitted the case to a FIBA interpreter on the site of fiba.com. If I ever get an answer and if some of you want to have a copy of that answer, leave me your email and I'll send it to you.
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