The Rarest of NBA Treats: a Game Protest is Granted

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This Is Rather Surprising.
Published 1/11/2008 by Matt at Hardwood Paroxysm
... Stern, in an extremely rare move, is calling for a do-over. Keep your pants on, Suns/Magic fans. There will be no replaying ye great screwjob or the Magic Disappearing Bucket from earlier this season. Nope, the Heat are getting a do-over. I gotta hand it to the guy. It's almost like he's grabbing his nuts in everyone's face. "What, you think it's unfair? No. Deez is unfair. Deez what? Deez Commissioner Nutz. Get me a sandwhich, fanboy."

Bobcats want a do-over
Published 1/14/2008 by Matt Watson at Detroit Bad Boys
With Miami being granted a rare do-over last week, Bobcats coach Sam Vincent wants one of his own: he wants to file a protest over a basket interference call that went against Emeka Okafor in the final seconds of Charlotte’s loss to Detroit. Chances of it happening? Slim to none. Miami’s happened because the scoring crew was negligent. This call happened because it was a heat-of-the-moment judgment call. ...

SHAQ TRADE TEARS NBA TIME-SPACE FABRIC
Published 2/11/2008 at With Leather - Sports news and gossip for your impressionable young children
... Last week's trade of Shaquille O'Neal from the Heat to the Suns sparked an interesting debate (other than Worst trade ever?, that is): with Shaq being the central figure of the final minute of the Atlanta-Miami game that was protested because the Hawks' scorer erroneously attributed an extra foul to O'Neal that resulted in him fouling out, what will the NBA do about the final minute that is scheduled to be replayed on March 8th? ...

How long does it take...
Published 4/3/2008 by c_r_black at T.Jose Caldeford
... Including that infamous Trent Tucker play, only 3 protests have ever been upheld in NBA history, including when the Atlanta scorekeepers incorrectly fouled Shaquille O'Neal out of a game earlier this season, and way back in 1969, in something known as ...

Wow. Bad call
Published 4/3/2008 by mgrange at The Globe and Mail - From Deep
... . And of course earlier this season the NBA office upheld Miami's protest where they argued that Shaq had been fouled out of the final moment of a game by mistake and even re-played the final moments of the game for the first time in forever. 3. On that basis alone the league should reverse this decision, if the video evidence is conclusive enough. If they can be sure the clock started before Ford caught the ball, it should go down as a Raptors win. 4. That said, Ford can also wear goat horns for getting the Raptors in this mess in the first place. He might as well have ...