I mean seriously, a do over? What are we, 12 years old?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3192421

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"ATLANTA -- The Atlanta Hawks and Miami Heat must replay the final 51.9 seconds of their game last month because the NBA said the official scorer ruled incorrectly that Shaquille O'Neal fouled out. This will be the first time since 1982 the league has sent teams back on the court for a replay. The Hawks won 117-111 at home in overtime Dec. 19. The NBA said Friday the replay will be held before the teams' next scheduled game -- March 8 in Atlanta. Play will start from the time after O'Neal's disputed sixth foul. The Hawks also were fined $50,000, with commissioner David Stern ruling the team was "grossly negligent" in failing to address the mistake. The protest is 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 finished the game in April 1983, with San Antonio winning 117-114 "

1/11/2008 5:54:17 PM

same outcome

1/11/2008 5:58:04 PM

I was "grossly negligent" when I didn't flush yesterday after dropping anchor on the plane

1/11/2008 5:59:57 PM

in the NBA this is pretty much worthless. they play how many games in a season? its not like college where every game is more important

1/11/2008 6:01:41 PM

^thats a joke right?

1/11/2008 6:05:31 PM

it could matter in playoff positioning since the Hawks are currently competing for a spot...I mean in baseball they play twice as many games as the NBA and they still need one-game playoffs sometimes

1/11/2008 6:05:45 PM

I wish they would have put what the score is going to be set at, if it was like a 111-110 game with 51 left its a big deal. If it was 117 to 106 then who cares.

1/11/2008 6:10:45 PM

I'm sure it will be really intense!

1/11/2008 6:21:51 PM

^^

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"Al Horford hit two free throws after O'Neal's foul to give the Hawks a 114-111 lead. Anthony Johnson added a running jumper with 14 seconds left to put the game away. "

1/11/2008 6:44:12 PM

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"The Hawks were leading 112-111 in overtime when O'Neal was called for a foul. "

1/11/2008 6:44:21 PM

thx. too lazy to click the link.

1/11/2008 7:15:23 PM

Shaq will pick up his 6th foul at the 51.2 mark

1/11/2008 7:16:19 PM

no. he'll be injured (just like the rest of the heat team) and the hawks will win, again.

1/11/2008 8:02:36 PM

why the hell did Atlanta get fined for a mistake on the part of the refs?

1/12/2008 2:29:10 PM

hawks' score-keepers

1/12/2008 2:32:37 PM

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"The NBA said Friday the replay will be held before the teams' next scheduled game"

They should do it after their next game. Part of the game is a team's endurance. How is playing the last minute on fresh legs going to make up for the mistake. Meh, they should just leave it in the history books anyway.

1/12/2008 5:37:19 PM

Bizarre....

1/12/2008 8:23:01 PM

so now that shaq is with the suns will he have to come a play this minute?

2/7/2008 7:06:55 PM

no, but they are debating on whether marion will be eligible i heard

2/7/2008 7:08:26 PM

this is why baseball is superior to all sports

2/7/2008 7:17:32 PM

I'm a seasonal sports fan...at any given time of year I may think any one of 5 sports is the greatest

Right now its basketball

2/7/2008 7:34:40 PM

The Red Sox once played in a game that was suspended at a predetermined time by prior agreement. It followed three straight rainouts and was part of a morning doubleheader in which they knew in advance that they could only get so many innings into the second game before they or their opponent would have to catch a plane out of town. It basically reduced the amount of total innings that might have to be made up at the end of the season if they could possibly affect the division winner.

I think the Red Sox were trailing at the time of the suspension, so their starter was on the hook for the loss if the lead was never given up, but the game hadn't gone five innings, and under the rules of that time, if a starter left a game before completing the fifth inning but his team never lost the lead, the winning pitcher would have been the pitcher who pitched the third out of the fifth inning.

Before the remainder of the game was played, the losing pitcher of record got traded to the other team, so if the manager of the other team wanted to, he could have used that pitcher to pitch just the 3rd out of the fifth inning, thereby getting both the win and the loss. Unfortunately, that manager apparently didn't think that doing so would have been such a cool ideal and so it wasn't done. I once tried to figure out who the pitcher was, but the career records of the couple that I tried to check out didn't fit the circumstances as I remember them.

I wonder what the NBA would do if Shaq had been traded to Atlanta. Could he play for Atlanta? How many fouls would he have on him?

2/9/2008 3:59:59 AM

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"this is why baseball is superior to all sports"

b/c baseball is the only sport w/o stupid rules, right?

2/9/2008 7:57:09 AM