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Wow! I didn't think this was a contraversial concept. I guess it is. In Rule 12B Section I e of the NBA rule book it says "Contact which occurs on the hand of the offensive player, while that hand is in contact with the ball, is legal." This is what I have always been taught and our coaches no this. We can get out of arguments using this rule by saying "Bob, he got him on the hand, which is part of the ball" if we have a no call on a strip play. Or when coaches question why we had a foul we need to make sure we do not say "Bob, he got him on the hand" because they know this is not a foul and I have seen them go off on rookies who make that comment. I know a lot of you are saying but that is the pro rule. Ok, I apologize, I assumed when I wrote my original comment that the pro and college and high school rule was the same regarding this. I read the college rule and it seems to be the same although I am not sure as the language is confusing to me. It says "A player shall not contact an opponent with his or her hand unless such contact is only with the opponent's hand while it is on the ball and is incidetnal to an attempt to play the ball." A guess that means that if you are playing the ball it is OK but if you are not playing the ball it is not OK but I would think you are nearly always playing the ball if you hit someone's hand while it is on the ball. I could be wrong, that's just my interpretation of the college rule. I do not have a high school rule book to read their wording.
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