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Old Tue Apr 20, 2004, 05:48pm
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Originally posted by unstandable
I just read this on ESPN.com:

"Did you know that, according to the NBA rule book, Chris Webber's pass to himself off the board for a dunk late in Sunday's Game 1 victory over the Mavericks should have been waved off as a traveling violation?"

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/playof...arc&id=1786241

So are you guys sure that he's wrong? At this point I don't know what to think.
In the NBA, an recovering an airball shot IS a travelling violation, where it's not at other levels. My guess is that this ESPN person didn't make the distinction. I think the easiest way to stop this sort of folly, would be to require announcers to quote passages. But I suppose that's more accountability than network folks are comfortable with.
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