Officials' Authorthy (2.6)

[Back In The Saddle]

My thought on this is that the rules are written so that the game allows both tall and small players each to their strengths without favoring either. It is just as much a foul to illegally negate the guards quickness with a handcheck as it is to negate the big guy's post position by using your knee to dislodge him. The perimeter shooter is protected just as much as the guy takin' it to the hole. If a big guy and a little guy both go up for a rebound, their relative sizes aren't what matters, it's whether either uses illegal contact to gain an advantage. Within the rules the game should not be allowed to become so "physical" that only big guys can play.

Now that all has to do with gaining an illegal advantage. Being seven feet tall and athletic, that's a totally legal advantage.