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Originally Posted by Snaqwells
He gets to hang to prevent himself from landing on another player. He doesn't get to swing to cause himself to land on another player. The rule says, specifically, "to prevent injury," which he clearly does not do. T for the hang, IMO.
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True, but I don't actually think he really swung on the rim...at least nothing worthy of a T. I think that people are fixated on the fact that he landed on a player's back, that it appears the he's swinging like Tarzan on the rim. Like Rut said, if none of that happened, then I feel like 95% of us wouldn't think anything of his grabbing the rim.
And Nevada, if you're telling me that you would issue a T for hanging on the rim, and an intentional foul...well then good luck with that.