Shooting over backboard

[ChuckElias]

Originally posted by heyref
It IS NOT illegal for a ball to pass over a rectangular backboard. What is illegal is for the ball to go BEHIND the backboard.

RnR, the only place your statement is true is in the NBA. If that's what you intended, then fine. But if you are talking about a high school or college game, I'm afraid you are simply wrong. My citation above is directly from the NFHS rulebook. I don't think it can get any clearer than that.

In fact, now that I think about it, the first sentence of your post is false, even in the NBA.

Chuck