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[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Raymond

His crew is not going to know WHY. Might be hard to believe, but they (folks in the NBA pipeline) focus on WHAT the uniform/equipment rules are and HOW to enforce them. They save their WHY's and HOW COME's for play-calling discussions, such as the actual topic of this thread.

They will certainly have more insight into my questions than I would, even if it's just based on an NBA referee informal around the water cooler discussion.

Many of us know why many of the rules that we use exist (intent and purpose). Why not the same for the NBA guys, especially the curious ones.

I know why the NFHS has it's undershirt rule, to allow officials to easily identify players on each team during fast paced action.

Raymond is correct, I did turn the topic a little sideways (heading toward NBA differences), and apologize it I have distracted from the purpose of my own thread.