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When I officiated my first intramural game back in 1977 (with no training, of course), I called a player for a self-pass, and was met with no arguments from the players. I was later told by the evaluator that I had made the wrong call, and that since there was a try for a goal, the players action was legal.
Ever since then I have been trying to explain this rule to hundreds of pickup game and schoolyard players, to no avail. It seems that "catching you own pass" myth has a life of it's own. An urban legend of basketball.
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