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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
I'll save you the trouble of looking. Just go back to your 2002-03 rule book, open it to p.13 and look at rule 1-12-1(c). That rule says "it shall have a deeply pebbled cover with the traditionally shaped eight panels bonded tightly to the rubber carcass". Then look on p.74 of the 2003-04 rulebook under COMMENTS ON THE 2003-04 RULES REVISIONS. The first comment says This change deletes the previously required eight panels on a legal basketball. The new description of a legal basketball has been changed to "a deeply-pebbled cover with horizontally shaped panels bonded tightly to the rubber carcass".
It's true, it's true....
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I completely believe you. I would hope that someone has a lot more to worry about then what the specifics are on the basketball. If the rule does not care how many panels you have on the ball, then why worry about it (unless you are trying to win a bet or something like that). And for the record, you are not going to find any evidence in rulebooks since then that this requirement of panels ever existed.
Peace