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Some of my mates were starting up a team in a local recreational league and are getting custom uniforms. They said that the number 19 is an illegal number. I google around for illegal numbers and apparently anything with 6,7,8,9 is illegal, obviously not in the NBA though. Anyway have any of you heard of this and is it a wide known rule. FFS it's a rec league it shouldn't matter. Otherwise we'll tell the custom shirt makers to stick it and print the numbers anyway.
 
Jabso said:
Some of my mates were starting up a team in a local recreational league and are getting custom uniforms. They said that the number 19 is an illegal number. I google around for illegal numbers and apparently anything with 6,7,8,9 is illegal, obviously not in the NBA though. Anyway have any of you heard of this and is it a wide known rule. FFS it's a rec league it shouldn't matter. Otherwise we'll tell the custom shirt makers to stick it and print the numbers anyway.
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I'd never heard of this, but after a quick google it seems that what you describe is the NCAA numbering system. Why it would apply to any rec league is beyond me.

Edit: Just realised it's the jersey company that are saying this. If you're using a US-based co. then it would make some sense I guess. Fwiw, none of the 4 leagues I've played in ever had a problem with 6-9.
 
Yes number 19 is an illegall number. Its because of the ref's, they have to be able to use 2 hands to signal the foul, its hard to explain. For example your allowed 13 because you can signal it with 1 finger on 1 hand and 3 on the other.

I dunno why you said 7 8 9 are illegal.
 

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0-15, 20-25, 30-35, 40-45, 50-55 are legal numbers the rest are illegal. You are right justthedukes that is because of the refs.
 
Jabso said:
They never said 6,7,8,9 are illegal but they said 19 is illegal they didn't say why. It's just a rec league so I still think they wouldn't care though.

So I guess you can't have 52 or 25 if you have 7 on your team either.
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Yes you can is a different hand signal when indicating the numbers for instance when signalling 52 is five fingers then 2 finger on the same hand, 25 is two fingers then 5 fingers on the same hand and 7 is five fingers and two finger on different hands at the sametime. I think that is right ???
 
Faithful Hawk said:
Yes you can is a different hand signal when indicating the numbers for instance when signalling 52 is five fingers then 2 finger on the same hand, 25 is two fingers then 5 fingers on the same hand and 7 is five fingers and two finger on different hands at the sametime. I think that is right ???
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Yeap :thumbsu: Spot on

I think its pretty stupid but ah well. Didn't really notice this until about a year ago, and ive been playing basketball for about 12 years lol.
 
peternorth said:
1, 2, 3 were illegal where i played cause apparently refs used 2 or 3 fingers to indicate the shot.

17 was a requested no. from one of my mates, but the jersey maker said it was illegal.
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Same with my local league.
 
in juniors your not allowed to have 1, 2 or 3 because they are the signals for free throws (1 bonus, 2 for a shot, 3 for a 3 point shot) and it gets confusing for people's parents (on the scorers table) whether it's foul on number 2 or 2 shots.
 

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