dump the free throw

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by BigCat

FTs have been part of the game forever.

Not true. In Dr. Naismith’s Original Thirteen Rules Of Basketball there were "power plays":

Rule 5. No shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall be
allowed; the first infringement of this rule by any player shall count as a foul, the second shall disqualify
him until the next goal is made, or, if there was evident intent to injure the person, for the whole of the game,
no substitute allowed.

Ask Mark T. DeNucci, Sr. He was actually there at the time.