I believe this is one of the Wilt Chamberlain rule changes, because they used to just park him right in front of the hoop and he could out jump everyone for easy dunks.
Oftentimes, you can figure out why a rule exists if you ask yourself "What would Wilt have done in the absence of this rule?"
That makes sense. Maybe due for an updating If a guy is messing with the rim or net ok but let the kids dunk.
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I've heard some talk of relaxing the interference rule to match the international rule.
From what I understand, that rule is that the ball becomes fair game once it hits the rim.
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Now that seems logical to me.
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