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Why do basketball officials use hand signals?

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Hand signals are used by referee's to relay the information of what foul took place to the stat officials sitting at the scorer's table. Using hand signals, the referee's do not need to walk over to the table and tell exactly what foul occurred, instead they use hand signals to describe the foul and which player committed the foul.

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Level of noise in certain arenas make it impossible to communicate with one another and the scorer's table without using gestures.

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