TheGallopinGoose
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Did anyone else think the timeout after LeBron's injury in the 4th quarter of Game 4 seemed longer than usual?
After checking the NBA rulebook and re-watching the sequence on DVR, here's what I came up with: the Heat called a full timeout at 5:15 in the 4th after LeBron started cramping up. The NBA rulebook states that a timeout can last at most 100 seconds (1 minute, 40 seconds), but 4 minutes, 35 seconds--enough time to take two commercial breaks--passed between when the Heat called timeout and when play resumed. The ESPN.com game play-by-play shows that no additional timeouts were called during that time. So why did the timeout last so long? I'm suspicious.
After checking the NBA rulebook and re-watching the sequence on DVR, here's what I came up with: the Heat called a full timeout at 5:15 in the 4th after LeBron started cramping up. The NBA rulebook states that a timeout can last at most 100 seconds (1 minute, 40 seconds), but 4 minutes, 35 seconds--enough time to take two commercial breaks--passed between when the Heat called timeout and when play resumed. The ESPN.com game play-by-play shows that no additional timeouts were called during that time. So why did the timeout last so long? I'm suspicious.
