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Coach or Bench Player Fouling The Opposition During A Basketball Game?

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College and Pro football have had their share of sideline antics by coaches, players, bands, and now trainers (Jets vs Miami), who have taken cheap shots at opposing players who are running along the sidelines during a game.

Can anyone recall any College Coach/Reserve player intentionally fouling an opposing player while they are running up/down the court during a BASKETBALL game (whether it was ultimately called by the officials, or not)?

I am not talking about technicals, or guys coming off the bench during a dead ball fight....But a Coach or Sub holding, grabbing, pushing, shoving, bumping, tripping an opposing player on the floor during a game....
 
Here is another one from a football game- it is not so subtle as the one in the Jets-Dolphins game-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVbQHISvByA

And another one that probably wasn't too hard for the referee to call-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcf1gLwKD9g

And here might be the most famous such "sideline tackle"-
It happened in the 1954 Cotton Bowl- Rice's Dick Maegle is breaking free for a long touchdown run, and is tackled by Alabama's Tommy Lewis who runs from the bench onto the field to make the tackle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCf3WqVyx4
 
I was aware of several incidences of players/coaches on the sidelines of football games getting involved with the play on the field, but hadn't heard/seen anything similar during a basketball game.

The absence of feedback by the Forum members, indicates to me, it might be rare, or not existent, in college/pro basketball for a coach or bench player interfering with the play on the court during a game.

Any of you former or current basketball players, coaches, or officials on the site: do you recall any incidents of coaches/substitute players on the sidelines interfering with the players on the court during a game?
 
I've seen players not help the opposition when they go flying into their bench, as a matter of fact they get out of the way completely. :)
 
The case of the NY Jets strength and conditioning coach tripping a player on the Miami Dolphins has taken another bizarre turn.
First- Sal Alosi has been suspended indefinitely by the Jets-
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/early-lead/2010/12/jets_suspend_coach_sal_alosi_i.html

But now it appears the incident was actually a conspiracy-

New York Jets strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi’s season-end suspension is now an indefinite suspension after team investigators discovered he premeditated and coerced several inactive players to build a human wall on the sidelines to impede on the movements of a Dolphins defensive back as he tried to cover a punt last Sunday.
Alosi, who was positioned at the front of this wall of five players standing side by side, infamously stretched out his knee as Miami’s Nolan Carroll ran down the sidelines eventually tripping over the knee of Alosi, forcing Carroll to sit out two plays afterwards.
Early this week, former Miami Dolphins linebacker Zach Thomas asserted on a radio show that it was clear by the video evidence Alosi and several inactive players were positioned in order to hinder any space Carroll could take advantage of on the sidelines.
Thomas turned out to be 100 percent correct as Alosi admitted to Jets’ officials he in fact ordered the players to block Carroll so he would be forced to run around them.

Jets' Alosi guilty of conspiracy against Miami's Nolan Carroll
http://www.examiner.com/miami-dolph...y-of-conspiracy-against-miami-s-nolan-carroll

Just a couple weeks ago, the Jets were riding high and tied for the best record in the NFL.
But now, their losing streak and this act of stupidity are bringing heat onto Jets coach Rex Ryan-
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...oes_style_about_to_trip_up_gang.html?r=sports

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/jets/rex_ignorance_is_amiss_4HQgnOzVl0tphFxWC9uIlJ
 
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