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Originally Posted by btaylor64
Please provide a rule book citing please. I don't want a case play. I want someone to provide where it says, in the rule book, that a player who is not yet stepped out of bounds is illegal. I believe it is one thing when he makes an attempt to step out of bounds and doesn't get all the way out and i believe it is different when he just grabs the ball and goes. They have to step out of bounds to be given or awarded the right for a legal or legit throw-in. I don't deem the play we're talking about an illegal throw-in or even a throw-in violation because he was not at the proper spot to make a, by definition, THROW-IN.
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bt64 you asked for a rule book citation I think 4-42-2 should suffice. A throw-in is a method of putting the ball in play
from out of bounds.
6-7-1 The ball becomes dead, or remains dead, when: a goal, as in 5-1 is made.
Basketball Rules Fundamentals:
4 The jump ball,
the throw-in and the free throw are the only methods of getting a dead ball live.
So in the situation that started the discussion if the player does not take the ball
out of bounds the ball is still dead.