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Originally posted by jritchie
True Storie!!!!!
Rookie wheelchair basketball referee calls traveling 38 times in first quarter!!
Dale Myers, a longtime basketball referee in northern New Jersey, brought a wheelchair basketball game to a virtual standstill on Saturday, calling more than 38 traveling violations in the first quarter before the rules of the wheelchair game were clarified for him. It was the first wheelchair game Myers ever officiated.
The opening quarter of the game between two teams of local paraplegics lasted more than 45 minutes, as Myers whistled players for traveling each time they put the basketball on their lap and wheeled around the court. Myers said he was unaware that there is no dribbling in wheelchair basketball.
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I hate to be "that guy" that has to rain on a good joke but there is a dribbling requirement in wheelchair basketball. Players are required to put the ball on the floor after two pushes of the wheel (forward or backward). It's very similar to able-bodied players taking two steps. I will say that 38 traveling violations in one
season much less one quarter is extremely rare.