Are every player entitled to a vertical position on the court?

[MiamiWadeCounty]

Originally Posted by BadNewsRef

You took a long time and some mis-used verbs to get there.

But you already knew a defender had to be vertical and that the offensive player is entitled to his own vertical cylinder.

What's really driving this question? What happened in the Heat game?

I already knew a defender had to be vertical and that the offensive player is entitled to his own vertical space, but I couldn't find anything in the NF rules book that said so.

Wade fouled out, Kobe was Kobe and the Heat played sloppy.