![]() ![]() An almost uncountable number of things can happen on any given night in basketball, but “Alonzo Mourning not killing himself to win” isn’t one of them. (2) The fact that the final play of Alonzo Mourning’s career was him trying so hard to block a shot during an early-season game that he ended up hurting himself is exactly the reason he was such a beloved figure in the NBA. That wasn’t going to happen.” That’s incredible. Nobody was going to push me off on a stretcher off the court. If I had to crawl off the court, I would have. He later said, “That’s not the way I envisioned myself walking off the court for the last time in my career. Two things about that: (1) When the training staff brought the stretcher out for him, he refused to get on it. He suffered a knee injury while trying to block a shot. The original Hawks-Heat game was actually the final game of Alonzo Mourning’s career.Any of the players who had not fouled out prior to the 51.9 mark would be allowed to participate (Josh Smith had fouled out for the Hawks, so he had to just watch), and any of the players either team had picked up before the trade deadline could play too. The stipulations for the replayed game were fairly simple and straightforward: The two teams would replay the final 51.9 seconds prior to the start of that evening’s full-length game, the score would be reset to 114-111, and the Heat would be inbounding the ball. 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. The Heat filed a protest afterward, which was upheld by the NBA several weeks later in January. 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. Shortly thereafter, the game was over and the Hawks had won 117-111. Shaq sat down, Al Horford hit two free throws to put the Hawks up 114-111, and that was that. And that’s when the trouble happened.ĭuring 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. The game stayed close for most of the way through (it was actually tied for almost the entire last minute of regulation), and the Heat legit had a chance to win it at the buzzer, but Ricky Davis missed a wide-open 3 (lol), sending the game into overtime. The Hawks were bad that year (they finished the season 37-45, sneaking into the playoffs with the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference), but the Heat were way worse (they finished the season 15-67, putting them last in the entire NBA, which is almost unbelievable considering that Dwyane Wade played in 51 games). The Hawks were playing the Heat in Atlanta on December 19, 2007. It’s one of my favorite Weird NBA things. One time, the Atlanta Hawks won a game without scoring a single point. ![]() “You talking about a do-over, baby? Are you talking about a fucking do-over?! That’s not how the game is played! You can’t do that!” -Avon Barksdale, chewing out a referee who floats the idea of putting a few more seconds back on the clock to replay the final moments of a game that ends on a contested non-call ![]()
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