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.
MIAMI VS HAWKS SCORE FREE
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.
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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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