Isaac
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The NBA and the travel rule
ESPN's TrueHoop has a piece on the NBA and its travel rule - how it's defined and how the rules are followed or ignored.
A quick excerpt:
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.Full story
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."