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Old Mon Feb 16, 2009, 09:21pm
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Originally Posted by referee99 View Post
On the side of the court were baskets at 8' height, so I got a chance to play with this. When a mens basketball is placed so that the vertical center of the ball is aligned with the middle of the outer edge of the 'shooters rectangle' and the ball is touching the backboard, the ball is not touching the cylinder with the ring of the basket as its imaginary base. It is just outside of the cylinder. Move it in 1" and it is touching that imaginary cylinder.
It's tough to argue with empirical data.
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