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Old Tue Nov 17, 2009, 12:25am
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Originally Posted by bleurose View Post
As an "old-time" official (back to the 80s), I believe this isn't a myth (as in something that was never true but has taken on an aura of truth because people simply keep repeating it) but rather something that at one time WAS true and has since been changed. I distinctly recall several situations back in the 80s when throw-ins were administered either at the division line (other than if the violation was near the division line or in the case of a T or starting a period) or the free-throw line extended (I think that free-thrown violations were administrered from the free-throw line extended for the longest time until about the early 90s).
In an earlier officiating life (some time in the mid to late 80's), I clearly recall free throw violations resulting in a throw-in at the free throw line extended.
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