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OT: Travel in NBA

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OT: Travel in NBA 

Post#1 » by Bluewhale » Wed Mar 4, 2009 11:58 pm

ESPN has a pretty decent article about the travel call in NBA.

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/truehoop/0-3 ... book-.html
In that play, Wade clearly picks up the ball and then takes two steps. But the NBA rulebook, and a hundred million basketball fans around the globe, insist players ought to get only one step after picking up their dribble like that.

Yet Borgia was ready to give him -- and every other player -- two steps in that situation.

In the conversation that follows, Borgia unravels one of the NBA's great secrets.

"We really don't reference the rulebook."
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Re: OT: Travel in NBA 

Post#2 » by AlCelticFan » Thu Mar 5, 2009 12:09 am

That explains it!

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