Double Dribbling

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Originally Posted by glbells

If a player passes the ball to another player and that player fails to catch it cleanly and knocks it to the floor with one hand and then catches it.....can he start dribbling.....or bobbles the pass and finally traps it to the floor with both hands .......can he pick it up start dribbling.....

thanks gb

You can fumble all you want without it restricting anything else you can do.

The crutch is ensuring that the official deems your act to be a fumble. So fake fumbles may be suspect.

In your plays, no violation in either case.