Heat - Hawks come to be re-played

[raleigh]

Funny thing is, the Hawks have been screwed at the end of games TWICE this year - New Jersey and Detroit.

[D-Wade]

^Don't worry.

This is good pub for Atlanta -- they'll be the first team in NBA history (correct me if I'm wrong) to win 2 games in one night.

[BooRadley]

Stern's trying to get Dwade to 10 wins before the all star break.

[Liqourish]

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Jealousy? Well, I don't blame you.......

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I'm jealous of Miami getting a re-do because they couldn't beat the Hawks in OT because the Suns don't have a championship?

Don't let the sig fool you.... my Pistons have 3 championships to their name.... and the bottom dwelling Heat don't exactly provoke much fear in me.

[High 5]

Ha, what a joke. I'm not really mad because it'll be interesting to watch. Shaq's pretty much worthless at that point of the game anyways. Now they'll get a fully rested Shaq to go balls out for 51 seconds. Funny this happens considering how screwed Atlanta was getting all game with the foul calls.

[triplet1984]

they should get it out of the way before the next game they play, meaning on the same night right then.

this is the weirdest thing ever.

[shaqfan1]

All of the people saying Stern did this because he favors the Miami Heat need to understand something. The best thing Miami can do right now is lose. The more they lose, the higher the pick they will get. If Stern favored Miami, he would have let the loss stay a loss. Instead, he's giving the Heat the opportunity to actually win the game, which is not a good thing for Miami.

[Schad]

My guess is that the replay wouldn't be happening if this wasn't the second time in two years that the Atlanta scorekeepers made a potentially game-changing error. Even though the replay will be rather meaningless, the league is pretty much forced to take action.

[Liqourish]

All of the people saying Stern did this because he favors the Miami Heat need to understand something. The best thing Miami can do right now is lose. The more they lose, the higher the pick they will get. If Stern favored Miami, he would have let the loss stay a loss. Instead, he's giving the Heat the opportunity to actually win the game, which is not a good thing for Miami.

It was the Heat organization that protested the loss and asked for this. So Stern granted a re-do, something he's not done for any team in recent memory (including Toronto that lost due to the same Atlanta score keeper in a 1 pt game last year).

[triplet1984]

the league isn't held responsible for their own mistakes, only other teams are.

i wonder, if, say, Ronald Dupree or someone equally scrubby fouled out would they still do this? or they judge based on how "good" the player is?

[Liqourish]

My guess is that the replay wouldn't be happening if this wasn't the second time in two years that the Atlanta scorekeepers made a potentially game-changing error. Even though the replay will be rather meaningless, the league is pretty much forced to take action.

The $50,000 fine should have been action enough. Make an example of the organization and leave well enough alone. This is absurd.

[shaqfan1]

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It was the Heat organization that protested the loss and asked for this. So Stern granted a re-do, something he's not done for any team in recent memory (including Toronto that lost due to the same Atlanta score keeper in a 1 pt game last year).

Wrong. The Heat didn't ask for a redo of a game. They asked that the official record that said Shaq fouled out of the game be changed. They asked for this because Shaq came dangerously close to tying the record for most foul outs in a row (6). They were looking out for Shaq's legacy, not trying to get a redo.

[NetsForce]

You know what's really funny... Shaq being the injury prone fatty that he is will probably miss that game as well! Haha man... The NBA where amazingly dumb happens.

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Wrong. The Heat didn't ask for a redo of a game. They asked that the official record that said Shaq fouled out of the game be changed. They asked for this because Shaq came dangerously close to tying the record for most foul outs in a row (6). They were looking out for Shaq's legacy, not trying to get a redo.

The Heat protested the game...I really don't think they cared about Shaq fouling out of 5 or 6 games in a row.

[tha_rock220]

I think that's BS. There's a ton of factors a team loses a game. What about if the refs call 30 BS fouls? Should that be looked at? Happens every game. What about when a ref makes an obvious error like calls a goaltending when it wasn't and the team loses by 1 point?

A BS foul is purely subjective and is something the NBA wouldn't bother with. This is totally different. Shaq shouldn't have been fouled out of the game. It can be shown that he should have still been on the floor. If this goes unchecked what's to prevent score keepers from doing this more often????

[triplet1984]

you know what would be the perfect way for this to end? if they did the re-do... firs ttime atlanta gets the ball... shaq gets called for a foul! fouled out!!!

[shaqfan1]

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The Heat protested the game...I really don't think they cared about Shaq fouling out of 5 or 6 games in a row.

If they didn't care about Shaq having a bad record to his name and legacy, then Riley wouldn't have sat him out for the rest of the game when he got his 5th foul in the game which could have been his 6th straight foul out. That was a close game too.

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If they didn't care about Shaq having a bad record to his name and legacy, then Riley wouldn't have sat him out for the rest of the game when he got his 5th foul in the game which could have been his 6th straight foul out. That was a close game too.

Are you serious?

[Hood President]

it will be 112-111 with 51.9 seconds remaining

just saw it on espnews

[Hood President]

they should put this national television