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I suspect it was a real issue in the NBA way back when they made that rule -- they faked injuries to use the silly "injury timeout" that the NBA had, why wouldn't they do it to get Wilt off the FT line? (And it was a long time ago that the NBA put that in -- I recall a referee applying that rule to a jr high game I played 30+ years ago. . . A bit unseemly as the junior high is allowed to walk up and down our bench to guess who the worst shooter would be . . .) For college, it does seem to me to be a solution looking for a problem -- but I wouldn't be surprised if the proposed change came about because someone was convinced the other team did exactly that -- anyone know the history?
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