I was watching the start of the Rutgers UConn game on ESPN2, and they called an administrative tech on a Rutgers player for dunking after the officials walked onto the floor during warm ups.  It game UConn 2 free throws before the game started. Am I the only one who didn't know that was a rule?

You can't dunk once the refs are on the floor. However, if you get to one of our games super early, like when the doors open, you'll see that alley-oops are part of our regular warmup routine.

What's interesting is when you get those really high profile high school games, like when Oak Hill Academy played the OJ Mayo/Bill Walker led North College Hill team at US Bank Arena. The warmups were nothing but dunks.

pretty sure that is not the rule. I have seen a player tempt fate by holding the ball over the rim and dropping it in get whistled for a T ........probably because the ref had been proactive and gave him a warning and the kid being a smart ass pulled that move then winked at the ref mockingly.  Kids are stupid ....that is not the way to start a game with a ref you do not know.

IIRC the rule was put in place because several rims and glass backboards over the course of a season became casualties and games were pushed back, postponed or canceled till they got replacements. FOr some reason once a kid finds out he can dunk he has to keep doing it ......

Dustin was yelling at a player who had just mastered the dunk...he kept doing it over and over and  Ford kept yelling at him fearing that he was going to hurt his hand or an ankle....amused and knowing the kid was not going to stop I walked over and said ..."Dustin....you have a male toddler? " He said he did .... I said ...."has he found his penis yet?" He said he had ....I asked :"how many times have you had to tell him to quit playing with it?"  He laughed knowing what I was getting at......No difference between toddlers and teens who found they can dunk IMO.

And to the OP up top....... I think there are probably a few folks in the world who do not know that is a Tech...but not many.

It was not legal in OU intramurals about 10 years ago to dunk in warmups. Once in a tournament game, the other team did and they got a technical and we got free throws before the start of the game. Even though Austen Everson was on our team, that was our only lead.

BobcatSquared made the same mistake for our team back in the early 80s.  Boy could sky

"Could" sky? Why past tense? We're not that old.

borna, do you know approximately when this rule was established?  I can remember that at some point in the past it was common to see players dunk during warmups, even in high school.  I'm guessing that maybe this went in after the dunk was brought back and made legal in the college game.  As you will recall there was a several year stretch when the dunk was outlawed in college basketball.  Until this thread, I was not aware of this no-dunk-during-warmup rule, but I guess I should have been because now that I think about it I haven't seen it for a long, long time. 

My very first NBA game was Christmas Day around 1986 in Philly. The Sixers were playing the Hawks. The best part of pregame was seeing Maute Bol talking to Spud Webb. The second best thing was the pregame dunk contest that started between Dominique Wilkins and Spud Webb. Wilkins shattered the backboard, but Austin Carr took the blame for it because, at the time, it resulted in a suspension for that game. The start of the game was delayed almost an hour while they switched out the shattered backboard for a new one.

When I was in high school and was finally able to dunk, I wanted to do it in warmups, but was too scared of drawing a technical foul. Since I never got an opportunity to throw one down in competition, now I wish I had done it pregame and just dealt with the coach's wrath. We would've lost anyway, so it probably would've been worth it to shhatch classmates that I could actually do it.

Amen, bro!

And, thanks for the answer to my question about when the pre-game-no-dunk rule went into effect.  

Wasn't dunking in games in college outlawed significantly because of Wilt? No one was going to stop his dunks and someone mighta gotten hurt trying.

You can probably use your search terms with dunk lew alcindor and wooden and find ample conversation to make a day's reading...Wilt had been a pro quite a while by then.  

UK 1, KSU 0 before the tip tonight.

What's stupid is that kicking the ball stops play and gives the ball to the oppo.  Just treat it as nothing and keep playing.