[rquoter]NBA sets guidelines for Heat-Hawks replay By PAUL NEWBERRY, AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP)—Shaquille O’Neal is no longer around, but Mike Bibby and Shawn Marion will be able to suit up for the NBA’s first replay since 1982. The league set guidelines for Saturday’s do-over between the Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat, who must complete the final 51.9 seconds of their Dec. 19 overtime game. The Hawks left the court that night with a 117-111 victory, but commissioner David Stern struck it from the books after the home team’s stat crew mistakenly ruled that O’Neal, then playing for Miami, had fouled out with less than a minute to go in overtime. O’Neal has since been traded to Phoenix, but the NBA said Monday that both teams can fill out any openings on their 12-man active roster with players acquired since the disputed game. That means the Heat can dress Marion and Marcus Banks, who came from the Suns in the Shaq deal. Likewise, the Hawks will be able to use Bibby, who was picked up from Sacramento just ahead of the trade deadline. Miami has 10 players who were active Dec. 19 still on its roster, leaving two openings for the makeup minute. The Heat’s other options are Jason Williams, Smush Parker and Joel Anthony. The Hawks, who gave up four players for Bibby, have nine active players still around from the disputed game. Also eligible to be added for the replay are Josh Childress, Jeremy Richardson and Speedy Claxton. Miami will have the ball when the game resumes, trailing 114-111. After the replay is completed, the teams will get a 15-minute break, then return to the court for their regularly scheduled contest at Philips Arena. The night is vitally important to the Hawks, who are battling for a playoff spot in the Eastern Conference and can hardly afford to squander an apparent win against hapless Miami, which has the NBA’s worst record (11-46). Stern also fined the Hawks $50,000, ruling they were “grossly negligent” in failing to address the mistake. Miami’s protest was the first granted by the NBA since December 1982, when then-NBA commissioner Larry O’Brien upheld a request for a replay by the San Antonio Spurs after their 137-132 double-overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers the previous month. The Spurs and Lakers finally finished the game in April 1983, with San Antonio winning 117-114.[/rquoter] http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...YF?slug=ap-heat-hawksreplay&prov=ap&type=lgns
What sucks is that in the last regular season game of the 1992-93 season, the Rockets "lost" to the Spurs in overtime after David Robinson tied the game on a tip in clearly clearly clearly after the buzzer (Bullard had put the Rockets up 2 on a clutch 3 pointer). The Rockets would have had home court vs the Sonics (a series in which every game was won by the home team) and who would've known, 3 peat? I mean I'm glad the Rockets ended up with 2 championships, but man, they got screwed so hard by the refs and the No Balls Association didn't do jack about that.
Perhaps they could let Dallas and Houston play over from the point that Finley was out-of-bounds... oh, well.
Are they gonna ask Shaq to suit up with the Heat for that 51 sec? Haha, the whole thing was about Shaq being unjustly fouled out. Now the replay doesn't have Shaq in it.
Salt in the wounds, my friend. I feel your pain. But this is definitely different: that call was made by an official, a (supposedly) neutral entity that is charged with making split-second judgement calls. Sometimes they get 'em right, sometimes they get 'em wrong. This is a mistake by the stats crew, employees of the Atlanta Hawks, and definitely NOT neutral. They're not allowed to get 'em wrong. Either he had five fouls or he didn't: there's no debate. A better comparison would be the May 9th, 1994 matchup b/w the Rox and the Jazz in the Western Conference Finals in which the Jazz timekeeper (DEFINITELY not a neutral party) failed to start the clock on the inbounds with 13.5 seconds remaining, "accidentally" giving the Jazz ten extra seconds to score. Had the Jazz tied the game or taken the lead, you can bet the Rox would have filed a protest, which probably would have been upheld. And that incident is one of the main reasons that, even today, the Jazz are (at least in my mind) the scum of the basketball world.
My buddy that's a big Hawks fan called me up and told me that seemingly neither team took the do-over seriously and neither team scored a point.
It would seem like it would be hard to get into the "end of the game" mentality after shoot around right before the full game.
Yes. Apparently, the last time it happened was in "December 1982, when then-NBA commissioner Larry O’Brien upheld a request for a replay by the San Antonio Spurs after their 137-132 double-overtime loss to the Los Angeles Lakers the previous month. The Spurs and Lakers finally finished the game in April 1983, with San Antonio winning 117-114." Man, I had to go to so much trouble to find the answer to your question. I had to read all the way to the bottom of the article that you posted.
