jump ball

[J Morrow]

Several times over the years I have worked with partners who told the non-jumpers before the jump ball, "you have to be up to the line (circle) or back six feet." I have asked each of these refs, at halftime intermission, why they said that, the answer is always the same, "it's in the rules." I have never found it in the rule book, case book, or any other book. Can somebody help me?

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