NBA Rules and Legal Formalism

ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog found this 5/16/2007 on sports-law.blogspot.com [flag]

A couple of interesting posts and comments from Michael Dorf at DorfOnLaw about the suspensions of the Spurs' Robert Horry and the Suns' Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw over the "altercation" in Game 4 of the Phoenix-San Antonio series. The issue is how the NBA's rules against leaving the bench, and Stu Jackson's decision to suspend Stoudemire and Diaw for doing so (or almost doing so, since ... [link]

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Wednesday Bullets
Published 5/16/2007 at ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog
... Thinking about those suspensions can get you deep into some interesting legal theory.

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