I respect the fact the video was 6 minutes and 9 seconds long

@thesourpretzel

5 жыл бұрын

Hard respect

@eddieauer6775

5 жыл бұрын

Oh hey

@teeghee34

5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@pyrobryan

5 жыл бұрын

My timer says 6 minutes 8 seconds. But I guess I can just "add one to".

@lilbites0102

5 жыл бұрын

pyrobryan lol😂😂😂

It might effect duke when they start retiring all the numbers.

@noahchase9647

5 жыл бұрын

Shane and north carolina, kansas, kentucky

@GI_Jimbo

5 жыл бұрын

Duke hasn't retired a single number since 2006. They don't have too many up there compared to a lot of schools. They only retire players who graduate, so the one and done era has slowed it down a lot.

@LegitimateJuice

5 жыл бұрын

Affect

@Donald_the_Potholer

5 жыл бұрын

One way to dodge that effect is to, after a kid's final game, change their "official" number to an illegal number. In most cases, that would involve changing either the ones digit *or* the tens digit, so that there is some resemblance to the original number, There are 3 special cases, however: 1. The numbers 01-05 are reserved for 1-5 respectively, likely for the first person to be retired under that number. To account for this reservation, the single digit numbers 6-9 are not available to these players (or to 0 or 00), being distributed by Case 2 below. 2. 6-9, (and by extension 06-09) would become available as a third option for players whose jersey digits summed to the respective (single-digit) number. (e.g. 51 becomes either 6 or 06 since 5+1=6) 3. Players whose numbers are a multiple of 11 (but not 0/00) may also elect to be retired under an illegal multiple of 11. Since only 5 players qualify for this rule and 2 of them also qualify for the "Sum of digits" rule, these numbers can be directly allocated: 66 could be allocated to (the first retired) 11, 77 to 22, 88 to 33, (but 33 would no longer qualify for 6 or 66) and 99 to 55; 44 would not be served under this rule but still remain in contention for 8 or 08. As for the remaining 12 numbers, (67, 68, 69, 76, 78, 79, 86, 87, 89, 96, 97, and 98,) these could be set as "Important Contributor" numbers. (i.e. persons who were never on the court but are of *great* importance to either the team or the University proper.) 09 could also be assigned to this group, given that only 45 and 54 would qualify for it.

@wyattmoxley2291

5 жыл бұрын

Shane lol

The number 69 is banned in the NBA. There was an instance in which Dennis Rodman wanted to wear it but they denied him

@joshlitz4509

5 жыл бұрын

It would be dennis rodman

@AGuyNamedBrook

5 жыл бұрын

This was when he became a Chicago Bull and his number 10 was retired prior to his arrival. He applied for 69 got rejected, then applied for 91 and got accepted.

@MrShanester117

5 жыл бұрын

Neil Johnson Football players definitely wear 69. Jared Allen for example

@0b5qRa

5 жыл бұрын

@@AGuyNamedBrook Nah. Since #10 is retired in Chicago, he wanted #01 but numbers starting with 0 is not allowed except 00. He settled for 91 because 9+1=10. So is 73(7+3=10) when he's in Lakers. He wanted 69 when he's in Dallas but not allowed. He settled for 70.

@AGuyNamedBrook

5 жыл бұрын

@@0b5qRa I actually went over that in a previous reply on this video. I did not know about the 01 part but I know he applied for 69 lol.

Change last name to "Threetimes" get number 23.

@midnightexpress1711

5 жыл бұрын

Jarvin Driftwood genius

@JesusHasJordans

5 жыл бұрын

200 iq

@scatterthoughts

5 жыл бұрын

you have 69 likes

@zacheryrobinson1085

5 жыл бұрын

Nice

@steezy1795

5 жыл бұрын

Or you can change the last name to Twotimes and make the number 34.5

Legally change your last name to: Add-Fourteen-To And pick 55.

@oz_jones

3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@seraphimfahmy3510

3 жыл бұрын

easier to pick 23 and change your last name to "3x"

Of course Will wants a number 69 jersey, dude was cheering for Big Daddy 69 in that episode of The Worst about XFL

@FALL-LAFF-7477

5 жыл бұрын

He blessed for that one.

@ashyourresidentenby5916

5 жыл бұрын

XD YES

@malgold88

5 жыл бұрын

I think we were all cheering for Big Daddy 69.

@tgt773

4 жыл бұрын

I wish the nfl had someone like that, like could you imagine getting tackled by Big Daddy 69

"But 27's in there?" "No. ...Do you know the digits, and the order that they go in?" "Most of 'em" 💀😂😂😂

@williamroberts2878

4 жыл бұрын

And then he forgets what comes after 38 lol

@johnc6158

3 жыл бұрын

@MUFC ok

@ABc-wf4ry

3 жыл бұрын

@MUFC stop commenting this on every vid

@rahellseddek8540

3 жыл бұрын

4:16 “17???”

@jamesdillon6467

3 жыл бұрын

@@rahellseddek8540 just realized this😂

The lack of a college number 6,7,8, or 9 is giving me some serious Mandela effect

@bobross1550

5 жыл бұрын

Really? What basketball players did you think had those numbers in college?

@ZakuIIX

5 жыл бұрын

@@bobross1550 In the NBA iguodala is a pretty famous number 9. I'm pretty sure Brent Barry wore 17 and Ron Harper wore 9. Again NBA only though but I would imagine they would have chosen to don those numbers in college as well

@aldiggty

5 жыл бұрын

ZakuIIX They didn’t. Iggy wore 24, and Barry wore 31. Not sure about Ron

@kalstonii

5 жыл бұрын

Wasny jj reddick 17 at duke???

@KarateSpencario01

5 жыл бұрын

kalstonii he was 4

I could've sworn my MyPlayer in 2k16/17 wore #91 in college.

@jalen3590

5 жыл бұрын

2k don't care

@ozanozenir2503

5 жыл бұрын

1128AM 2k doesnt need fingers to count

@swolemole69

5 жыл бұрын

The refs grow fingers in 2k

@calvin1508

5 жыл бұрын

It's a game dumbass

@bktootuff

5 жыл бұрын

NoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoNoN

i think this discriminates against six fingered referees.

@ramirorybczuk9100

5 жыл бұрын

It actually makes a case for missing fingers referees

@mcj88

5 жыл бұрын

Dread Pirate Roberts' secondary career choice is _screwed_ then.

@bigpapipapa256

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@adameves5970

5 жыл бұрын

You mean four-fingered referees. A ref with six fingers would have no issue with this rule.

@tiger5869

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe if the ref has 6 fingers they should allow #6 and such for just that game

Speaker: And now presenting our starter line-up: At Foward, Andy Roberts, number 10 At Center, John Francis, number 21 At Point Guard, Steve Peters, number 24 At Power Foward, Ben Stevens, number 33 [Silence] [lights go off] ... ... *[Sirens and Airhorns intensifies]* Speaker: AND NOW, STANDING 6 FOOT 1 INCHES, AT SHOOTING GUARD: *"THE MAD LAD" WILL ADD-ONE-TO, NUMBER 68"*

As someone studying ASL it’s worth mentioning that the numbers 6-9 are also easy with one hand and also quite distinct from the other 6 digits, and that’s what makes this row even more wild for me

@redtaileddolphin1875

3 жыл бұрын

@Kevin L ..... it’s hard work to learn 4 hand signs? they need a way to communicate numbers with one hand and it exists. that’s it. they already have to know to much extremely specific info to be a ref, I think 4 related hand signs would not be that much of a burden. if knowing the difference between a crow and a raven made being a sportscaster easier, I would indeed argue they should learn that info

Do a video on why football players have to wear certain numbers....you don't ever see wide receivers wearing 68, or lineman wearing 85

@skibbidyrizz

5 жыл бұрын

Parker Adams I second this

@brianbadonde9251

5 жыл бұрын

It's obvious why not, positions have certain number they have to use. It's not rocket science

@skibbidyrizz

5 жыл бұрын

Rev Hitit maybe to you, but it’s obviously not common knowledge.

@Subdivision229

5 жыл бұрын

Rev Hitit but not everyone are football fans that understand why.

@brianbadonde9251

5 жыл бұрын

@@skibbidyrizz All you have to do I look an NFL team, notice that a range of numbers is used for receivers and a range for OL etc and it's common sense at that point. But I guess some idiots need their hands held while they learn something

That's why Peppers wore 45 for UNC basketball, but 49 for the football team.

@cheetogod5521

5 жыл бұрын

Worldwide Wyatt the more we know

In the NHL #0 and #00 were specifically banned in the late-90s, and supposedly the reason for this was because rookie Buffalo Sabres goalie Martin Biron _crashed the NHL's computer system_ by wearing #00 during his 3-game stint in 1995-96. The NHL's denied that's the reason (though of course they would, that'd be embarrassing considering the NBA has no such problems with those numbers) but they've also admitted that they don't actually _know_ the real reason 0 & 00 are banned, because the minutes of that meeting are supposedly lost to the sands of time... (my point here is that you should do more NHL history videos because the NHL's history is filled with so much silliness it should be talked about & laughed at all the time by everyone.)

@SimuLord

5 жыл бұрын

Considering that the Roger Neilson episode was probably the best episode of Weird Rules, I agree.

@Zer0Skateboard

4 жыл бұрын

99 is also leaguewide retired

He’s thinking 27 from Mr. Splash Man!

@DJLukk4

5 жыл бұрын

Shot Clock Cheeeeeseeee

@Sutidamuskun

5 жыл бұрын

Number 27 to Number 21

@DJLukk4

5 жыл бұрын

Suti~Tooti HOU-STON

@alexchavez1419

5 жыл бұрын

LeBron James We’ve got a problem

@scottzummers2812

5 жыл бұрын

Ali Simchi W

As someone who has announced b-ball games and sat at the scorers’ table this rule is helpful. We need to record which players committed fouls and if the crowd is noisy you can only go off the ref’s hand signals. If someone wore 99 this would be really awkaward

@joshlitz4509

5 жыл бұрын

@Hamed Khatiz still way easier to misunderstand

@timothybrown5999

5 жыл бұрын

Hamed Khatiz when you are sitting at a table, floor level, and a ref points in the same general area as the rest of the players it’s even more confusing. But when he motions which foul the team belonged to and puts up a 3 and a 5 then I know the foul is on Blue 35

@DefaultProphet

5 жыл бұрын

Just hold up 4 fingers sideways instead of vertical. Learned that watching Deadliest Catch.

@muhilan8540

3 жыл бұрын

There are hundreds of ways to express all 10 digits using only one hand. Start with the ASL way of expressing for example.

@ItsYuhBoyyyy

3 жыл бұрын

So just let them use 2 hands?

the NCAA doesn't know how to count using sign language

@BrendanKearnsMusic

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but the NCAA would only be able to add numbers 7, 8, and maybe 6 [since it's commonly used in place of '3' for players] . 9 is currently used to signify 3 point shots (or 3 foul shots), so I'm okay with the rule since it reduces ambiguity in signaling.

@DBB314

5 жыл бұрын

BrendanKearnsMusic wtf are you talking about

@LuisFernandoAraiza

5 жыл бұрын

BrendanKearnsMusic I understand what you are saying but I feel like the scores table people are smart enough to know if they are using that sign for a 3 point shot or for a jersey number. If not. Then they should be fired.

@boccci

5 жыл бұрын

the way I was taught to do higher numbers as a ref is to turn my hand sideways, indicating a plus 5. A sideways two is seven, a sideways four is a nine, etc. etc.

@dddiop

5 жыл бұрын

@@LuisFernandoAraiza "You're saying the foul was committed by a 3 point shot? That just doesn't make any sense ref, but okay!"

My HS told us about this rule when we were ordering our jerseys and said we couldn't do it, but I still just wrote down "#91" (Rodman) and ended up coming in, wore it all season with 0 complaints from refs or anything and it all went peachy.

NFHS (high school) works under these same rules. Makes even more sense when you are dealing with many scorekeepers who are often volunteer students, parents, or staff. Unless you are involved in HS basketball, you'd be surprised how often there are communication issues between officials and the table. One final note - under NFHS rules, you can have 0 or 00, but not both on the same squad. cheers

George Mikan wore #99 for DePaul, but then again this was when basketball was played with peach baskets.

Legend has it that Will is still saying all the numbers he hasn’t seen in the NCAA

@johnthompson5741

5 жыл бұрын

I got to this exact part of the video when I read this I just died 😂😂

Actually, you cant use the number 69 in the nba. Dennis Rodman already tried lol

@willcarroll9762

5 жыл бұрын

Furious Storm158 of course he did

@SimuLord

5 жыл бұрын

I just checked Basketball Reference and indeed, there has never been a player who wore number 69. The full list of unused NBA numbers: 58, 59, 64, 69, 74, 75, 78, 79, 82, 87, and 97. Every other number has been worn at least once by somebody.

@fridaynightpizza7158

4 жыл бұрын

@@SimuLord nobody has ever used 64? what, no nintendo fans in the nba?

@crazyluigi6664

4 жыл бұрын

@@SimuLord I remember 98 was used by Hamed Haddadi in his one year with Phoenix because he wanted to reference his home country there. (It related to phone codes there for some reason.) However, I wonder if anyone else ever wore 98 before him?

@exwhyz7990

3 жыл бұрын

@@SimuLord No one used a stack of numbers

I mean, the hand signal explanation makes sense to me. Then again I'm a programmer, so having bounds set up with that kind of practical logic is pretty common.

@Gabriel64468

2 жыл бұрын

It makes sense until you think about it. You would need all of 5 additional signs that the referees would need to learn. And that isn't even a new thing, there are languages in which this is normal - Chinese for example HAS one handed signs for single digit numbers.

4:10 "Who made that foul?" *Holds Up 15* "it was number 17" "Wait 17?" This made me chuckle all the 4 times i rewatched it

@Statsy10

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like he just proved the point. 😂

Having worked the scores table before, I’ll say that this rule definitely helps but it’s really dependent on the refs for whether or not it’s necessary. The good refs will say the numbers as they flash them so you’ll see them go “one, five” when the foul is on number 15. But the bad refs will just briefly hold up their hands. And I worked an AAU game where a team had a 15, a 51, and a 6, and one of the refs wouldn’t mouth the number when he flashed it which honestly was a disaster if I didn’t see who the foul was on myself.

Referees should just signal in binary, now they can count up to 1023.

I'm still waiting to see a player in either college or pro wear a 1/2 Jersey.

There was a slight edit to the rule once. Before 1999 the numbers 1 and 2 also weren't allowed. The reasoning was the official would signal for one or two free throws.

“Do you know the numbers and the order they go in?” is such a brutal thing to say to someone.

We just not gonna talk about the fact that they fs made this video 6:09 on purpose

This actually came from a controversial ejection where a player wearing 15 was ejected but one of the fouls should have been attributed to #6. This happened twice in 1963.

This was a very good and interesting video. Thank you.

@ericveneto1593

5 жыл бұрын

Are you saying it was "Pretty good"?

This also gets more hilarious when you realize that ASL let's you communicate 0-9 using one hand. So there's already a hand signal system that gets around this

just wait til they figure out how the ASL number system works

As a basketball official I got to say this rule is one of the best ones. Two hand reporting is simpler when I can throw both numbers up at once. This also makes it less likely for an official scorekeeper to make any mistakes.

Next to anything by Jon Bois, Weird Rules is my favorite SB Nation series. Good job dudes.

This is going to make a great question for Tom Scott's Lateral.

@brakosjacob8019

5 жыл бұрын

Wasn't expecting a Tom Scott reference over here. Mystery biscuits to you.

Makes sense that it came from an older era. Basketball is one of the few sports where fouls add up and can lead to ejection. So making sure the stat takers get the players number correct when a ref signals them can be pretty important. Sure with the technology we have now we could easily remove the number restrictions and probably never have an issue, but that wasn’t the case even 30 years ago.

Man gets banned from ncaa for having a jersey number of 69

@roguishpaladin

5 жыл бұрын

...but not for the reason you'd think.

Omg when I was in 7th grade I was QB #40 (5:09)

Shout-out to #68 in your programs, starting at small forward, Will Add-One-To.

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

I used to ref HS ball and this never even occurred to me since we used ASL signs.

Everyone that ever watched or played a game of Highschool Basketball should know, that this rule exsist...

@tommclarty17

5 жыл бұрын

Which means the entire heterosexual community has been in the dark about this.

@michaelgriggs7839

5 жыл бұрын

I didn't know about this and i play basketball and i know a lot of people who don't know about this either. A lot of people don't pick those numbers anyway

@Hogscraper

5 жыл бұрын

​@@tommclarty17 Thanks for clearing up that the entire NBA is homosexual. I'm sure the hundreds of wives of NBA players are going to be shocked to hear this.

@MrChinbaca

5 жыл бұрын

Same rules don’t apply in high school g.. tf are you talking about

@tommclarty17

5 жыл бұрын

Hogscraper you’re welcome!

“Player 24 Holding I’m itchy”

Ah, an update from the future. NCAA will allowed 0-99 on their jersey. So, Will, your chance to get 69 in NCAA will be open if this allowed.

If you have ever officiated a basketball game you appreciate this rule. Just makes it easier and avoids confusion.

@pct87

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, but then they couldn’t make these moderately funny jokes. Logic has no place here.

This interaction was hilarious I lost it at 2:14

Gymnasiums can be very loud places. To avoid confusion and to avoid mistakes made by the scorer, limiting the jersey numbers to digits the ref can signal with one hand make complete sense.

@darrengordon-hill

5 жыл бұрын

Still odd you can have 1 and 11/2 and 22 etc but not 0 and 00

@BrendanKearnsMusic

5 жыл бұрын

@@darrengordon-hill I think it might be a software/technical limitation that would prevent 00 from showing up on the scoreboard.

@adamcoe

5 ай бұрын

Yet somehow the NBA manages to do it in 18,000 seat arenas, how incredible

I've played a school championship here in Brazil where things were made so much simplier: we were allowed to use any number, from 0 to 99 (I was the number 77 on my team), and when the referees were calling a foul, the signal made with the front of the hands (or the palms) meant the tens, while the signal made with the back of the hands meant the ones. So simple yet so clever.

@The77Tairon

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the purpose of uniform numbers is to id players And I just described a perfect way to do that without having to limit the numbers they can use And your point is that the referees will take too long to do that? Really?

They do ASL exists right? They have single handed signs for 1-99

@gavinwhite3871

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, most of those signs have motion in them which would make them difficult. But 0-10 all have single hand signs that dont move

@guppy719

4 жыл бұрын

Sure and that would defeat the purpose by introducing a new system people aren't used to.

@atticusshadowmore3263

4 жыл бұрын

@@guppy719 Granted, but still, there is a very easy counting system out there most don't use

@guppy719

4 жыл бұрын

@@atticusshadowmore3263 Its not as easy as counting on your fingers which everybody recognizes.

@pct87

3 жыл бұрын

@@guppy719 driving isnt as easy as walking, but ppl learn that. Just cause u want to limit yourself, doesn’t mean all ppl do.

I didn't believe this so I checked my college's basketball team numbers and yeah it holds up.

Cf. Jon Bois, his topic choices, his unforced, brilliant humor. Jon Bois is quite good at what he does.

Funny as well as informative!!!😁😁😁😎😎😎

It’s because it’s much easier for the referees to signal the player in contention’s jersey number to the scores table with their fingers, gesturing the signal for clarity and verification.

I like how the video is 6 minutes, 9 seconds

@ypcsquirrel

4 жыл бұрын

Most people with iqs under 70 would

What I want to see is a ref with polydactyly who allows the number six.

3:13 LMFAOOOOO the head nods and sound effects are so funny to me, I’m not even sure why

As a waterpolo player with the number 36 I completely understand why this rule was put in place

WE LIKE SPORTS AND WE DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS

@DenverGiants

5 жыл бұрын

From shooting hoops

@FuckPolitcs

5 жыл бұрын

@@DenverGiants Kofie!!

@michaeldensmore6234

5 жыл бұрын

To the super bowl

@AHealthySnack

5 жыл бұрын

They're just 2 guys and they're havin a good time

@robertgollnick5183

5 жыл бұрын

foot ball football football tennis hockey (golf)

A couple years ago Euroleague changed the rules allowing numbers 0-99 under fifa rule changes 2014 ART 4.3.2

These guys are awesome.

I think you'll find that the NCAA rule was born out of the FIBA rule that was originally put in place, which were designed to be independent of spoken language. 4-15 was used for tournament play where squads of 12 were involved (take a look at the 1992 Dream Team). Affilliated leagues adopted a slightly more open approach - 4-15, 20-25, 30-35, 40-45, 50-55, as they had to cater for team squads, retired numbers, jersey sales, etc 0, 00, 1, 2, 3 were all banned due to conflicts with other signals (foul shot, field goal, 3 seconds, foul signal, etc). This has been relaxed over the years. Number signalling mechanics varied, but in short, refs were taught various methods over the years. 4-10 was signalled in whole digits over one or two hands (based on one finger per digit) 20 upwards was signalled using one hand - (20 was two fingers followed by a fist for the 0) 11-15 was the strange set - two hands - a right fist for the ten (left as the scorebench saw it), with the remaining digits on the left hand in unison. But the whole thing has gone to pot now - I half expect to see a player with 3 $ signs on their chest as a legal number in the NBA one day!

Do a video on why Raymond Felton is the undisputed goat

Do a video on why hockey has no formal jersey number rules.

Easy solution to the hand symbols, ASL. You can sign any single digit number with one hand

Great job!

*Holds up a 1 and a 5* "It was number 17"

"How foul is he?" **Holds up fingers** "THIS MANY!"

Ryan and Will are the best

The pee wee analogy was spot on. I was a qb and my number was like 40 something because I was tall but I had a short lineman who was like 17

books about Sir Donald Bradman and then make a video about him please.

@AlonsoRules

5 жыл бұрын

Americans talking about cricket would make that one even better

@michaelhall5429

5 жыл бұрын

@@AlonsoRules it'd just be nice for them to see what a real statistical anomaly looked like. Jordan, Tiger, Brady and Federer are all great but literally no sportsman has stood out like the don did.

So if Antonio Alfonseca became a NCAA referee, could they wear up to 66?

@DaDualityofMan

5 жыл бұрын

I mean he would have to referee every single game across the country.

College rules are applied to tournaments (unlike NBA) where refs may have to relay calls, or report calls far away, to the score table to keep the games moving. A sign language 7,8,9 is hard to see at distance and according to most coaches all refs are blind anyways, so this can be a problem. In all seriousness it actually is a good rule that seems silly.

They really covered it all of the fun facts I had lol

Basically they have Base-6 numbers

2:40 oh so NBA refs have 9 fingers on each hand??

@04music98

5 жыл бұрын

What

@TheBHNetwork

5 жыл бұрын

Kipple 1998 This comment makes no sense but 83 people liked it for some reason

@Kipple-wp7pd

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheBHNetwork he said has to be number 1-5 cause 5 fingers. NBA refs have 5 fingers too but no rule on the number. the fact it didn't make sense kinda says a lot about you.

@ExpulsoPlayz

5 жыл бұрын

In the NBA and non-NCAA bball organisations, the numbers are shown with both hands, while verbalising and switching the face of your hand to show a different number. E.g. for 32, you would show 3 fingers with the back of your hand, and then 2 finger with the palm towards the scorer

@scatterthoughts

5 жыл бұрын

they're an elite group

I paused at 2:47 to make this comment. I was a lacrosse referee for a few years, it's simple to use one hand to convey any double digit number. First digit is palm forward, second is back of hand or vice versa.

As a guy who's refereed basketball, I can tell you that rule is good. There's nothing more frustrating than having to walk over to a scorer's bench because they were confused by the jersey number 56.

@Parabellona

Жыл бұрын

like it seems frivolous but it makes the game progress so much faster I swear. It's not such a big issue in the NBA where the scorers are getting paid substantially and, you know, have the experience to make it work. in under divisions It's a huge time saver.

"I understand the words." I'm not sure he does.

Are people really just figuring this out?

They only let him out to discuss weird rules. I wonder if he knows they never say his name, and that when they say they want him to read or explain a rule, they’re lying.

If the number one recruit in the country ever said “yeah if y’all won’t let me wear 7 I’m gonna skip a year and go the the league” they’d change the rule so fast your head would spin.

They have this rule at my high school

I actually think this rule is quite reasonable. I did book while in High School and this rule mostly eliminated miscommunication

@redfish337

5 жыл бұрын

I think college basketball makes enough money they can teach their refs and the scorers table the 4 ASL signs for 6, 7, 8 and 9 before giving them the job. It's not that big of an imposition on high school either.

I remember watching a NCAA game when I was a kid when a player got a technical foul for an illegal jersey number

The NBA does have a similar rule, but they have a process to request other numbers. For instance Dennis Rodman had to specifically request the number 91 and apply with valid reasoning to be allowed to wear it. His number 10 was retired by the Bulls prior to his time with the Bulls so he appealed for the 9+1=10 and was allowed to wear it. The NBA allows 0,00,1-9 then follows the NCAA regulations unless someone applies for an exception. One other notable exception was Andrei Kirilenko whom applied for the number 47. Andrei Kirilenko (AK) 47.

Or you can change your last name to “sixty” and wear #9

@cfbaddict7284

4 жыл бұрын

No you can't...

"Do you know the numbers and the order that they go in?" "Most of them." lol

This is that one friend that just starts explaining things and you dont really care but you listen to the whole thing.

I understand this, when I played high school basketball, depending on the league my highschool was in, we followed this rule.

Why don’t they... you know.... use both hands? The refs here in Australia do that

@6thwilbury2331

5 жыл бұрын

Jordan Davies They do now, and have been for at least a decade.

@ballwizz23

5 жыл бұрын

Because 6 and 15/51 would look the same. The same rule is used for high school bball. It's much clearer if one hand is used. No chance of confusion.

@jordandavies4482

5 жыл бұрын

Ballwiz 23 how would 6 and 15 look the same. 6 you hold up 5 fingers on one hand and 1 on the other. 15 you close one fist to represent 10, and hold 5 fingers on the other. If you get confused because of that, there is something secretly wrong with you

@ballwizz23

5 жыл бұрын

@@jordandavies4482 Close one fist and hold up five fingers on the other hand? You serious? Do that and people will think that means 50. Literally nobody would inherently understand that and it's just asking for bookkeeping errors. Especially at lower levels where the people keeping score and track of stats aren't professionals. Much easier to have this simple yet effective rule in place. - A basketball referee of 8 years

@jordandavies4482

5 жыл бұрын

Ballwiz 23 if it doesn’t work then why does all of Australia do it that way?

i knew this because of Kentucky Sports Radio. De'Aaron Fox as the thumbnail! Love it! #BBN

@stop.juststop

5 жыл бұрын

1992

@Joe-ck3ju

5 жыл бұрын

Haha, it doesnt bother me man. nice try tho. Duke beat em that year. Solid play, great shot. I applaud talent.

@stop.juststop

5 жыл бұрын

@@Joe-ck3ju 😂Good sport. Most of my family is UK fans including my father whose name is also Joe. I remember watching that game. We all went crazy when Laettner was allowed to stay in the game after that chest stomp. It was one of the best games I've seen to this day. Too bad y'all didn't win. Probably the most upsetting loss in the 90s other than Arizona in 97 which woulda made a 3peat after 98. The only thing I really miss about Kentucky these days is the Red River Gorge. Certainly don't miss the humidity and mosquitoes. You ever been to the Gorge?

@Joe-ck3ju

5 жыл бұрын

@@stop.juststop No sir i have not i am just south of louisville near bernheim forest. RRG is a drive and a half. And i took the the 98 loss worse than the 92 loss because i was more interested in GI joes and transformers than basketball.

The ending bit was beautiful

Does that mean that to be a Ref in NCAA, you have to have all ten fingers? "Dude's missing a thumb, cut him."

There was an Australian rules football player who wore #100 as a joke during a regular season game.

I have always been slightly irritated u can wear 0 in basketball because it's not actually a number, and slightly more irritated u can wear 00, which actually literally doesn't exist.

@mattgreek1066

5 жыл бұрын

Zero is literally a number.

It's pretty easy to represent 10 numbers on one hand; just make your thumb worth 5, and the other digits worth 1. 6 = thumb + pinky, 7 = thumb + pinky + ring finger, 8 = thumb + pinky + ring finger + middle finger, 9 = your whole hand

I learned about this way back when in middle school when I joined the basketball team. The coach asked me what number I wanted on my jersey. I said "8". He said "you can't use that". So then I said "28", and he said "no, you can't use that either". "82".... then he finally explained "no, you can't use the number 8 at all. Has to be 5 or less for each digit". lol