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Please check case 10.5. It outlines a referee's duties if he sends a player off the court."In such circumstances,the official should require the individual who has committed a flagrant foul to leave the vicinity of the court with an adult supervisor." You don't send players off the court unattended.
And I think it was a POE last year about players leaving the bench during play, like for a drink of water or going unattended into hallways.
Put the rulebook aside for a minute. The rule book does not cover all the legal entanglements you can get in to. Letting players run around unsupervised because the referee told them to leave the court, is opening all sorts of liability issues. I'm trying to prevent them. So, for the third time, if I'm in a one coach game, and a player gets blood on their uniform, I let the coach accompany the player to the locker room to change his/her shirt??? And hold up the game till they get back?
I'm of the opinion, that is the prudent thing to do.
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