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Originally posted by JCrow
I was a Junior in HS when they banned dunking. I never wondered about it then but now I think it was definitely aimed at the "city game" or Alcinder personally.
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I wasn't around at that time, so I can't give you a definitive answer about why they specifically banned dunking. But my guess is that it was already illegal, based on the BI rules. To dunk the ball, your hand is contact with the ball while the ball is in the cylinder. Banning the dunk simply made this application of the BI rule explicit.
Now maybe the rules committee thought it was necessary to make it explicit b/c of the proliferation of the "city game", I don't know. As I said, I'm just guessing.
JR or MTD would have a better perspective than mine, I'm sure.