HomoSapien wrote:I mean in a one point loss for the Wizards, that's just an egregious no-call. I don't know what the best way to rectify it is. At the very least, you have to fine that coach. If I'm the Wizards, I'm at least petitioning to replay 14 seconds of the game (with the Wizards ball) with a chance to ultimately win the game again. I believe that was done once about ten years ago (with maybe the Hawks and Pacers if I'm remembering correctly)?
Looks like it was the Hawks and Heat. Here's a recap:
During overtime, the Heat’s Shaquille O’Neal, who by then was basically an oil tanker in a basketball jersey, was called for his sixth foul of the night, disqualifying him from participating in the final 51.9 seconds of the game. Shaq sat down, Al Horford hit two free throws to put the Hawks up 114-111, and that was that. Shortly thereafter, the game was over and the Hawks had won 117-111. It turned out, though, that a bookkeeping error had accidentally attributed a fourth-quarter Udonis Haslem foul to Shaq, giving him one more than he really had, meaning really he had only five fouls and should’ve been able to play that 51.9 seconds when he was forced to sit.
The Heat filed a protest afterward, which was upheld by the NBA several weeks later in January. As such, it was ruled that the Heat and Hawks would replay the final 51.9 seconds of the game when they met again in Atlanta for another Hawks-Heat game on March 8, 2008.
https://www.theringer.com/nba/2018/3/7/17088350/atlanta-hawks-miami-heat-replay-nba-game-march-8-2008
To me, a version of that seems like the fairest solution here.
