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Originally Posted by rfp
A thrown elbow couldn't be the beginning of a fight? Of course it could, which is why the official jumps in immediately with an intentional-personal or unsporting technical foul depending on the time of the foul relative to the whistle.
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Yes, it could be the beginning of a fight. But it couldn't
ever be a
technical foul of some kind, as you say. There was live-ball contact on the play. That
has to be a
personal foul of some type, as per rule 4-19-1. It happened
before the whistle blew. Technical fouls during a live ball have to be
non-contact fouls, as per rule 4-19-5. Iow, BktBallRef was completely correct.