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Originally posted by Lotto
Funny that hitting the ball is T but hitting the player is only intentional personal...
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Not really.
A technical foul, by rule, is limited to non-contact or dead ball contact fouls.
A personal foul, by rule, is limited to live-ball contact fouls.
During a throw-in, the ball is live, so contact with the inbounder must be a personal. Similarly, you can't have a personal foul for merely touching the ball (it's impossible to foul the ball), so that violation of the rules must result in a technical foul.