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Crawford revealed that the referees incorrectly allowed Tim Duncan to enter the game during a video review following Allen's tying basket, a rules violation that led to a fine for the officiating crew.
''That's the way it should be. You screwed it up, you screwed it up,'' Crawford said during an interview at the NBA's Replay Center. ''We just lucked out.''
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Actually, it may not have mattered if it was Duncan. Any Spurs player could have scored and the Heat would have been able to protest that the Spurs had an illegal player in the game - a protest that would have had a good chance of being upheld and forced the game to be replayed from that point.
Ray Allen's big 2013 trey cost refs money, nearly caused NBA headache
Crawford revealed that the referees incorrectly allowed Tim Duncan to enter the game during a video review following Allen's tying basket, a rules violation that led to a fine for the officiating crew.
''That's the way it should be. You screwed it up, you screwed it up,'' Crawford said during an interview at the NBA's Replay Center. ''We just lucked out.''
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.
.
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Actually, it may not have mattered if it was Duncan. Any Spurs player could have scored and the Heat would have been able to protest that the Spurs had an illegal player in the game - a protest that would have had a good chance of being upheld and forced the game to be replayed from that point.
Ray Allen's big 2013 trey cost refs money, nearly caused NBA headache

