If a player is injured and the other team calls a time out. Can he stay in the game if he is ready to go at the end of the timeout or must his team take a timeout.

His team must be CHARGED a time out.

That is what the book said sort of. It says that he must be ready to go immediately or be caharged a timeout. The question in my mind was he was ready to resume play at the next opportunity. how do we determine if he was ready to go if the other team called a time out?????????

If the player was not bleeding or you have not directed the player to leave, or you have not waved a coach onto the floor for injury, then they don't have to sub for him. If they have to sub for him then the sub rule would apply and he couldn't return until the clock has started.

You don't grant the other team a TO until the injured player's team replaces him/her (and then the regualr sub rules apply -- no re-entry until the clock has run) or the injured player's team takes a TO. At the end of that TO, the player must be on the fllor ready to play, or a sub must be entered. Then you grant to opposite team's TO (if they still want it)

Tahnks