[ChuckElias]

I'm attending our board's class for people who want to become IAABO members. Our board interpreter told a story that I thought you all might find interesting. We've asked ourselves this question dozens of times on this board: why is dunking prohibited during warm-ups?

According to my interpreter, the reason is as follows. Years ago, he didn't say how many, several of the members of a college basketball team were extremely ill with the flu. They had a game scheduled on the road, and the AD called the host school, explained the situation and asked if the game could be postponed. The host school's AD (apparantly smelling an easy win) said they would not postpone the game and they had to play the game as scheduled.

The visitors arrived on the day of the game, went out for pre-game warm-ups and tore the basket off of the backboard while dunking. The game could not be played and was postponed.

The rules committee put the rule in so that a team could not intentionally gain a delay in the contest.

It sounds a little too contrived to me, but this guy really knows his stuff and wasn't pulling our chains. What do you think?

Chuck