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Old Thu Dec 12, 2002, 10:58am
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Re: Two hands

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Originally posted by Mregor
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Originally posted by Jay R
Excuse my ignorance, but why is #8 an illegal number?
I referee FIBA rules and #8 is legal.
Any number that you can't make with one hand is illegal in NFHS (that would be a '5' for most of the population). 0 and 00 are also legal, however, you can only have one or the other.

Mregor
I sure hope we never have a four-fingered ref for my college team - some of our best players (men's and women's) have the digit five somewhere in their number.

And, while we're on the topic of people with a "different" number of fingers - My name is Intingo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die!
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