Visiting NBA teams get to pick which basket they shoot on first. Evidently, the refs in Minnesota didn’t give the 76ers the basket they’d asked for, and didn’t realize until the game had already started:
76ers-Timberwolves game restarts after teams play the wrong way
Yeah, it took 15 seconds of play and a foul call before the refs realized they’d sent the teams in the wrong directions. Thus, a possession in which Henry Sims drew a foul TECHNICALLY DID NOT HAPPEN. Sixers coach Brett Brown was perplexed:
It was like The Purge: NBA Edition for 15 seconds. Thankfully, nobody got any points on the board before the mistake was corrected. What would have happened if they realized this in, like, the second quarter? At what point do the refs just pretend nothing’s wrong and keep playing?
