"Fumble" is the key word there, that implies an additional later contact by the player who had possession. I mean, look at this part of the rule:

"If a player has his hand in contact with the ball and an opponent hits that part of the hand causing the ball to go out-of-bounds, the team whose player had his hand on the ball will retain possession."

That little exception existing makes it clear what the 'spirit' of the rule is IMO. They just need to explicitly line up the rule technically.

"Last person to initiate contact" is in line with how it's always been called, is spiritually in line with other OOB rules, is far easier to judge (noone wants 5 min replays), the list goes on

Trigga Trae Time

Bogi is available for Hawks as is Reddish although seems doubtful he gets on the court

maybe Snell can get back in the groove and pick up some slack

Hawks 1/12 from 3 - standard

think Hawks have to pull Bogi if he can't be a threat

give his minutes to Snell

1st half cliffs? Trae just kill Lopez in PnR and hit a bunch of floaters?

Bucks seem to be having no problems scoring despite horrible shooting

Bucks falling apart

Hawks such a likeable team.

Trae goat

omggggg

Between that and the board oop it's like woah

Trae Young

That was a horrible TO by Nate lol

they were cooking Portis and GIannis was sitting

yep and yep. love it.

pretty much - then Trae getting the lob game going when they come out on him

lol Marv. blind af. Gallinari was 2 feet inside the 3-point-line

then he doubled down on it during a replay of the shot

Nothing like sticking to your guns.

Bucks can't really stress the bad hawks defenders similar to how Philly couldn't

spread pick and roll teams just get these guys off the court so fast or compromise their value (Lou, Gallo, even Bog in his current form)

he did it again on a future Gallinari shot, a minute or 2 later that I missed, but looked quickly to see the on-TVscreen score only register a 2 point increase lmao

need a little more Red Velvet down the stretch

Hawks absolutely killed the no Lopez lineup on the boards

Middleton 6/22 0/8 lol oof

Suns gonna wreck either of these teams

This is fun.

Trigga Trae!

exhibit A

rare good thing to come out of the pandemic - made me get NBA league pass to watch all the Hawks game - totally worth it

NBA without super teams is so good

Not sure how Trae and Book are doing what they're doing without load managing all season