I was playing basketball in a championship game for a local amateur league. Our team was behind but slowly catching up to the opposing team. With a few seconds left, I passed the ball to a teammate. She made the shot! A nice 2-point shot that brought us ahead of the team by 1 point, 92-91, at the buzzer! We won!!
The coach of the opposing team was not pleased, however. He was upset that the winning points were scored by someone who had just come off the bench. He said that the rules clearly state that players need to be on the court for at least 30 seconds before they can score, and that she had only been on for 2 seconds. I said that I had never heard of such a rule, but that I would look it up in the official rulebook. No-one had one on-hand, of course, so I Googled it, but any search for “official basketball rulebook” or “NBA rulebook” led me to non-existent sites or pages. If I image-searched, the only results were for cute pastel drawings of some strange looking fish and some deep-sea sponges (maybe the scientific names started with “n. b. a.” for them? I couldn’t figure out the reason). Very frustrating to not find what I was looking for!