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Originally Posted by btaylor64
Its because you are allowed, in reality, two steps! The first step is your pivot foot (step 1) and then the other is with your non-pivot (step 2), and as long as the pivot doesn't return to the floor it is a legal play. As long as i have been reffing it has been that way at all levels!
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This is the reason the word step does not appear in the definition of traveling.
step: n. The single complete movement of raising one foot and putting it down in another spot, as in walking.
By this definition, a player in control of the ball may not take two steps, unless they are both with the same foot.
Meanwhile when a Kobe wannabe picks up his dribble, does a 360 spin and winds up 5 feet from the original spot with both feet on the floor, and I call it a travel, his coach/fans all quote Joe Borgia (and you) indignantly:
HE GETS TWO STEPS!!