Rule Book Interpertation

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Originally posted by Jimgolf
When I officiated my first intramural game back in 1977 (with no training, of course), I called a player for a self-pass, and was met with no arguments from the players. I was later told by the evaluator that I had made the wrong call, and that since there was a try for a goal, the players action was legal.

Ever since then I have been trying to explain this rule to hundreds of pickup game and schoolyard players, to no avail. It seems that "catching you own pass" myth has a life of it's own. An urban legend of basketball.

I wouldn't call it an urban legend since it's not legal in the NBA. What is the urban legend, at least IMO, is that people think that NBA rules are the only set of rules that govern the game of basketball, when, again in IMO, what the NBA rules govern is, many times, far from the game of basketball.