An NBA player once played for both teams in the same game. We can explain. | Weird Rules

When the 76ers and Nets played in 1978, it felt like any other game. But after referee Richie Powers started giving out technicals to everyone in sight, it went off the rails.
Ok, maybe that's a slight exaggeration. BUT! He did hit someone with three technicals, which led to the coach protesting and getting hit with three techs as well. Since you can't do that, the Nets took offense and protested the result of the game. It was successful, and the end of the game would be replayed. The trouble was, it wouldn't be for another four months, and in that time these teams combined for a trade. Thanks to that, Eric Money played for both teams and helped create one of the weirdest box scores in NBA history.
(As mc88dx pointed out in the comments, Ralph Simpson and Harvey Catchings, who were a part of the same trade, also had minutes in both games, and I should have clarified that Eric Money was the only player to record baskets for two teams in one box score. Thanks for catching! -Ryan)
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JR Smith did this in game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals

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Armed Titanium lol

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Best comment of 2019 made me lol

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*henny smith

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😂 LMAO

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You got me 😁

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"YOU CAN'T GIVE MY GUY THREE TECHNICALS!" "Okay, YOU get three technicals." **surprised pikachu**

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Pika

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Not surprised

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😂

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This is my favorite episode of weird rules. How in the world was that ref allowed to stay in the NBA?!

[@Darthtanos]

much less ref the finals...

[@ThatGinger29]

He retired after this season

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Gregory Teague Jr. NBA during 70s get clowned for players often doing cokes and all types of drugs but boy, do they have some wild stories. Also, I think EVERYONE was on some drugs in NBA during that era.

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@@parasight21 everyone is a bit of an exaggeration, if Jabbar could give The Dipper problems in the 70s i would love to see Kareem off coke

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parasight21 doing cokes?

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When you can’t decide what team you want to be on Just be on both

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KD

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If you can't beat them, join them.

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LMAO 😂

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Italy 100

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Not just reddit and NFL now NBA too

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Eric Money, Richie Powers... those are the type of names that are nicknames in of itself

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Should of named Eric Richie Money

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@@EricSmyth2Christ That's the name of the guy who pockets the $1500 deposit.

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Richie Power Money!

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I was the 666th like :)

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The 70s were a trip.

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“He was responding within a reality that should not exist” is an absolutely amazing quote

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Also whoever animates these is a legend

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That would be our designer Phil Pasternak, who along with Mike Das help make our series look fire

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Thank you

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and mike too^

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Purposely starts air balling every shot

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Tastyquicksand *also sets NBA record for most turnovers in a game*

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lets be honest, he would be benched so he wouldn't have the opportunity to do so.

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Lol

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What’s air balling?

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@@udaytejsingh3998 Shooting the basketball and missing the rim completely

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There is a rule in NASCAR that states every driver must drive 100% of their ability. This came after a driver purposely wrecked to change the points standings. Maybe you could make a weird rules episode about this

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And then NASCAR has since ignored this rule on every occasion where it becomes an issue.

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Joeylawn36111 it’d keep it fresh I guess

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@@joeylawn36111 Nascar is also just pretty much a joke compared to other major sports

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NASCAR is a sport?

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People hate Nascar now because it’s rules are a joke. It used to be good.

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Legend has it he is still getting technicals

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he still gives technicals

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He died in the 1990s, so probably not.

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"Teams have been auto-balanced, you are now on BLU" "YOU FAILED!!!"

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tf2 meme here xD

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BULLSHIT!

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Ref: Technical Fans: "No." NBA: "It's Rewind Time."

[@asd36f]

I vaguely remember a MLB game where the two managers were idly chatting before they finalised their lineup cards and gave them to the umpire, when they decided to immediately trade players - the two players had to go the clubhouse, get changed, then go to the other clubhouse and get changed into their new uniforms.

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Best sports KZbin channel just waiting for a rewinder

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Friend, keep your eyes peeled at the end of the week, we've got a real special one coming your way

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@@SecretBaseSBN Basketball?

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@@huongdieu6543 You could say that

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SB Nation let’s go

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Nathan Kelly not as good as these guys

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3:22 "He was responding within a reality that *TECHNICALLY* does not and should not exist." I see what you did there, Seth!

[@kourii]

Actually Harvey Catchings (another great NBA name) and Ralph Simpson both played on both sides in the game as well; Eric Money was the only one who scored as a member of both teams. And the fourth traded player, Al Skinner, played for _neither_ team - that is didn't play in the game in the original version nor in the resumed, alternate-reality one - making him, to my knowledge, the only player to record a DNP for both teams in a single game.

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Can’t beat em... JOIN THEM ASAP AFTER HALFTIME

[@Rockhound6165]

On a similar note, in 1979, the Phillies and Mets were playing a double header. In between games, Jose Carenal was traded from the Phillies to the Mets and played for both teams on the same night. Also, in 1982, Joel Youngblood has the distinction of getting a hit for 2 different teams playing in different cities on the same day. He was on the Mets playing a day game in Chicago. He got a hit. After the game he was traded to the Expos who were in Philly so he flies to Philly and singles for the Expos that night. Incidentally, both of his hits came off of eventual Hall of Famers(Fergie Jenkins & Steve Carlton).

[@coopercharneco8024]

A similar situation happened last year to Juan Soto. When the nationals played the Yankees he wasn’t in the mlb yet, but when the game got postponed he hit a home run. So technically his first hit was before he was even called up to the MLB.

[@perciusmandate]

I like to imagine that every time Richie messed up a game, the commissioner would shake his fist and yell "POWEEEERS!!" like a classic sitcom.

[@Utonian21]

"Money" is an amazing last name! Imagine getting to have that on the back of your jersey! "This way, Mr. Money"

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There is a boxer whose name is Awesome

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So basically Nebula in Avengers: Endgame

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Except the alternative timelines stuck

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Best response. lol

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This is one of my favorite comments of all time 😂

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this took me a half of a sec to comprehend but OH MY GOD YESSSS EXACTLY!!!!!!!! spoiler alert*

[@EMETRL]

in soccer, clubs will often loan out players to other teams, usually to give youngsters playing experience. When this happens, there is often a clause in the loan deal that prohibits that player from playing against the "parent" club. This kind of contract clause also can exist for outright transfers. I feel like something resembling this should have been discussed in this nba game.

[@blitz2687]

But what if a player gets traded midgame (like Harrison Barnes) but to their opposing team? Will the player go to the opposing team's bench or wait til the game is over? Just a thought.

[@coldsnap5742]

I think the rule now is that he cannot play for the rest of that game, and the trade doesn't become COMPLETELY official until the game's conclusion.

[@haoye2413]

Gotta ask the Baseball players, happen more than once in MLB player get trade mid game. I think Demarcus Cousin's trade was funnier tho. Go to New Orlean for All star, get traded mid game, journalist tells him "Hey you are staying here New Orlean now XD"

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Aikie Halley Gonzales the team doesn’t announce trades mid game so it won’t happen. Even if it did I think the team has to list their squad before the team and has to finish the game with that squad.

[@jackspicey7608]

A Player cannot change sides during mid game cuz they have a List of Players submitted to the committee before a game starts so that means even if you're traded to the opposing team during a Game you, cannot switch teams

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@@christopherchan5245 Trades have happened mid game. Players haven't switched but they get taken out and don't play that game

[@TheZreich]

And two future Bulls coaches played in this game - Doug Collins and Phil Jackson.

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And Loughery was MJ's first coach. That's wild.

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@@akshaysundru482 Mike Bibby's dad too.

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Please do an episode about the time Joe Crawford lost his mind and challenged Tim Duncan to a fight during a game.

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Joeylawn36111 i believe it was that same game that he said he would fight him in the parking lot after the game

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@@nicksmith7736 and Tim knows MMA too🤣

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Not a big deal. KD did that for OKC and golden state in 2016

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Same game though?

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@@anonymousperson3023 yes game 6 At some point in the second half he realized I can't beat them so I might simply let them win and later join them to create the new NBA dynasty

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Thanongrit Suriyarungka LMAO

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@@joseorea200 it's a joke

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Ref pettiness: Boss Level 35

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But boss levels only go up to 34...

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RusseLL "First Round Exit" Westbrick It’s so high it breaks the limit

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When you’re losing to the computer on 2k so you switch teams half way through

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This might be my favorite series on KZbin. SB Nation has the best content for sure.

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Chart Party (obviously) and Beef History when Seth narrates it.

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I don't even watch sportsball but I absolutely love this series for the metaphysical debates it causes. Btw, today I learned that the NBA has a better grasp on the time/space continuum than most sci-fi movies.

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See, this is why Doc Brown wanted the time machine destroyed.

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Do one about the baseball player who made his debut in a rain shortened make up game and his first hit/hr was technically before his debut as game goes into the books as original start date. Great vid btw

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Loving all the SB videos. Weird Rules and Rewinder are always a good time! Keep up the awesome work!

[@Famijoly]

I remember reading the completed box score for this game. Strange to see the name Eric Money on both sides of the ledger. Richie Powers was a total take-charge referee. He probably had good intentions when he called the third technical foul on Bernard King, to punish another unsportsmanlike act in full view of everyone. But he should have just included his description of the post-ejection chair kicking as part of his report to the league office. It likely would have meant a higher fine, possibly a suspension, for King. But then incident would have been over. But Powers broke a cardinal rule of officiating: Never create a protest scenario.

[@fittyJackson]

You covered the handling of the technical fouls given, but what did they do about the other fouls? Did Eric Money keep any fouls he committed as a Net when he joined the Sixers for the replay? Did they just reset those normal fouls he could theoretically commit more than six fouls that game? Did they reset everyone's fouls? I need more!

[@andrewbrown784]

I thought the same thing! Presumably, they treat him like a new player for the 76ers, so he could have committed up to 12 fouls (if he fouled out for both teams). But what if the ejected player had been the one traded? Would he get a fresh set of fouls? Also, which team pays Money's game check? Need more information!!!

[@fittyJackson]

How great would that have been? Especially if he got another (third) technical in the replay.

[@andrewbrown784]

We're playing this game again because you can't have 3 technicals... and you got 3 technicals anyway. Dang.

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You could say that Richie Powers seemed to go off on a real.....Powers trip. YEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!

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BOOOOOOO!!!

[@WereCatStudio]

"You have been switched to the other team. Reason: Balance"

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... as all things should be

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I love this channel so much I cant stop watching lol, wishing I found it sooner. Some of these are soooo amazing!

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I hope we get videos like this more often! This guy is so good with these crazy sport stories

[@devinmann3034]

2:30 I do wonder if this is maybe to prevent teams from protesting every single game they lose, just out of spite.

[@alex042687]

This kind of reminds me of when the Ms traded ichiro to NY on the same day NY was in town to play the mariners. So he starts the day on Ms, traded, and plays for Yankees that same day. I think that's how it went down.

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

The C*bs and Cardinals once traded players between games of a doubleheader

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Yup - I was at the game, in Seattle, as a Yankees fan. Most emotional game I’ve been to.

[@werdna53]

This has to have been your greatest episode so far! Keep up the good work guys!

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I remember requesting this! So glad you made it!

[@The77Tairon]

A similar thing happened on the 2019/2020 NBA Finals: no matter how that series ended, Dion Waiters was the only player with a sure ring. That's because, long story short, he played for both Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers on that very same season. What a time to be alive.

[@cameronlamb1869]

Wait what how tho? You could be traded 4 times, play for 5 teams in one season, but only the team you're on during the finals matters lmfao

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players who get traded midseason still get rings to my knowledge

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Big deal, Clarence "Coffee Black" Withers did this in the Mega Bowl between the Flint Tropics and San Antonio Spurs

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Ryan Fredericks and created the "alley-oop"

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“Foul! No.. two fouls!”

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Who?........ oh, you mean Downtown “funky stuff” Malone

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This is an amazing story. I always thought the player who played an NHL game BEFORE getting drafted was wild... but this one might top that.

[@tomislav3954]

Do a Luis Suarez (attacker) in South Africa (World Cup), deliberatly defended a clear goal with his hands just so the team doest score. He got a red card but Ghana missed the penalty and eventually lost the game and dropped out of the World Cup.

[@paliboy93]

No real weird rule there. Saurez got punished, Ghana got a standard form of compensation (a penalty kick) and failed to take advantage

[@LeafInFlames]

and now Ghana and Uruguay are rematching

[@WelziFC7]

Never heard this story before. Started watching this and thought “boy this sounds like something that would only happen to my Sixers.” Then they bring up the trade... *sigh* how did I know

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CAN WE GET A IN DEPTH LOOK AT THE KG AND TIMMY FUED. YOU GUYS DO SUCH A GREAT JOB KEEP IT UP

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Bro I adore this channel thank you

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This is one of my favorite channels

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He attacc He protecc But mostly He give out teccs

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"Oi, you can't hand out three technicals!" "*Bet.*"

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This is literally the best channel on the whole internet

[@dareabledog89]

This reminds me of a Nationals game last year. The Nationals started a game with the Yankees, at this time Juan Soto was still in Minor League Baseball. In the middle of the game it started raining then they decided to make up the game on a later date. When they make up the game, Juan Soto is now on the big league roster, so he pinch-hits in the make up game and hits a home run. So he homered in a game that started before his Big League debut.

[@richielavey1565]

Okay so did he receive a win and a loss on his own personal statistics regardless of the outcome of the game?

[@stevebuscemislefteye9967]

Imagine playing against the nets and eric money just basically says "opponent has left the match"

[@blakeallen2721]

This is like that NHL game where a player had a heart attack, so they started the game over, but they started it at 1-0 so a player technically scored a goal from his couch because he was injured for the replay

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You get an instant subscribe because of this awesome/insane story.

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The Nets still lost the game in March, along with the game later that night against Philly

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randomdude476 ball don’t lie

[@DwayneIsKing]

1:28 Lol I love how as humans we always make up crazy stories and even act out the voices in situations and hypotheticals that would never happen 😂

[@alexgruel9932]

I think, ironically the protest rule is a hilarious gold mine for weird interactions. The only other time I can remember it ever being used is in 2006 or 07 with the Miami Heat. Shaq "fouls out" with only 5 fouls. Miami protests and yes, gets the game replayed from the moment their player was tossed too early. Of course, in the intervening months Shaq was traded to Phoenix. So Miami is playing a game again because they did not have access to Shaq for the last minute or so, without access to Shaq.

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70's basketball was amazing.

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Coach: you can't give 3 techs Ref: haha, 3rd techs go brrrrrrrrr

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Who else thought it was when the player went to keep the ball inbounds and chucked it into his own basket from beyond the 3-point line by accident? (It was recent, but i can't remember the guys name)

[@alexadams4578]

this reminds of me of when your team is winning in practice and then your coach makes you switch teams to make it competitive in the middle of the game.

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Love the videos. You should make more about football (soccer) though.

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Wait so who won the new reality game

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Sixers still won, this time by six. All that trouble to lose by two points more.

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@@bobsnow6242 So basically this new reality game became... completely pointless in the end.

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Crazy Luigi there was a point, to prove a point.

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@@butterthyme2241 And that point wound up going in Philly's way anyway. **Insert Japanese faced shrug here.**

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Bob Snow ball don’t lie

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This is the best weird rules episode ever

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These are great! So interesting!

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Can you do a video on the first three pointer in the NBA?

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I think Chris Ford hit the first one in NBA history.

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Why? What was weird about it?

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We need someone to do "the creation of SB nation deserves a deep rewind"

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That Shelsky shirt is life!! Need to get you a BeerCanvas glass

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You guys are funny. Thanks!

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He plays for both teams, if you know what I mean

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Yeah, I just watched the video! He sure does

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UndergroundVillage 🏳️‍🌈

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I also know what you mean having just watched the video, as well

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Wink wink nudge nudge

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( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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I actually remember this happening I was so young and confused 😂

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Bruh 😳😹😹😹💀

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Sports Nerd Here, this was awesome

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This has to be one of the strangest situations you guys have ever found. Crazy!

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Are we just going to act like Coffe Black didnt switch from the spurs to the tropics in one game

[@dangeiger9796]

Option three is that Money is not allowed to play in the completion of the game for either team

[@IsaiahDrinks]

Thank you for teaching me the word proclivity.

[@lucwijngaard8413]

That's simply amazing!!!

[@Mr_Roleez]

Nobody: Ref: You get a third technical

[@kenrickeason]

That day everybody had that "What the hell look" on their faces.. LMAO!!

[@SavingSoulsMinistries]

In first grade I played my first year of soccer. I was scared to play for my team and I only wanted to play defense. I was always good but just scared to fail. So the last game of the season the other team didn't have enough players so the coached asked if anyone wanted to switch. I jumped up and said I would. My dad drove down 300 miles to see me as well. Anyways I scored four goals on my own team and then never played soccer again

[@MortanAMrk]

That is too goofy

[@Alsadius]

I think this happened in the MLB as well. I recall a story about a pitcher getting a loss and a save in the same game, through a rain delay that (similarly) led to a mid-game trade.

[@aureliusvincent4469]

Man this Richie Powers guy has a knack for giving out weird rules

[@doublearon9518]

Is there a rule about take off your shoe and throwing it at ball that's in the air.

[@haoye2413]

Not directed to this video. It just amaze me why suspicious calls are not reviewed more often.

[@p2powers520]

Agreed. How in the world is a ref with the potential for human error, or even a secret agenda/vendetta/ulterior motive/etc. the person with the final say in these games. Especially in championships. Retited refs have admitted to betting on games and blowing calls on purpose. There needs to be a system of checks and balances

[@notion-y2670]

4:16 these reality altering technicals are so powerful they got my guy looking like john carpenter's "The Thing"

[@LuckyBird551]

Al Skinner was also traded between the two teams, but did not see playing time for either squad, making him the only player in NBA history to have an official DNP for both teams in the same NBA game.

[@brownmamba6339]

Video Suggestion: Wilt Chamberlain made the NBA institute a rule for (1) offensive goaltending, (2) not jumping over the free throw line during free throws, because he would dunk free throws, and (3) widen the paint, because he was too domininant in the post. Like so Ryan can see!

[@Xkingluis23]

Imagine the NBA with no technical fouls 😍😍😍

[@evknucklehead]

Call them Unsportsmanlike Conduct fouls like they do in American Football? Side note: Imagine if they had the same penalty as in football. How would you enforce a 15-yard penalty on a basketball court?

[@Xkingluis23]

evknucklehead I would prefer that

[@seize3]

This reminds me of the Suns and Hawks (I think) game that they had to play out the last couple of seconds months later. That's an episode right there

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Seize 3 u are cringe embodied

[@TheXev]

I love this series. I really do.

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Plot Twist: The Ref was actually the founder of T-Series

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😂😂

[@XX-xe5us]

Now thats what I call a T party 😂

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SB Nation has the best video series Great animation

[@DomMenace226]

The beginning of this reminds me of that one movie with Billy Crystal as a ref.