Violation or nuttin?

[Mark Padgett]

I was talking with a guy here at the assisted living center where I now reside and he asked me a question about something that happened in a men's wreck game he was in about 15 years ago. It was played in a MS gym. After a basket by team A, B1 went to take the ball OOB along the endline. B2 broke down the court and B1 attempted to throw him a long pass to try to get a breakaway layup. However, the inbound pass hit the rim of the faraway basket, bounced upward and then it came down, bounced onto the court inbounds where B2 grabbed it and put it into the basket.

He said he knew it was a violation an inbound pass hits the rim right above you, but he didn't know if the rule also applied to the inbound pass hitting the rim on the basket down court.

I asked him what the officials ruled and he said he didn't remember - not that unusual for those of us here.

What's your call? Rule reference please. Oh yeah - they use NF rules in that organization.