I envision the game summary to look like this:
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In a stunning twist of events, official Zach Zarba whistled a foul against his colleague Tony Brothers when the referee inadvertently blocked the way for James Harden. The situation occurred with 2:34 left in the final quarter and the Rockets down 99-104. The guard was bringing the ball up court while looking at the sidelines to receive play instruction from coach McHale when he crashed into Brothers, who was tying up his shoestrings.
After some irritation the game continued with an out-of-bounds-play, Zarba apologized for the incident and commented later that he saw Harden, who had already shot 18 free throws at that point, stumble from the corner of his eye and felt there had to be some sort of foul involved. The official denied that any bias factored into his decision and said he would make the exact same call again.
Dallas extended the series one more time with the 112-108 victory and both teams are heading back to Dallas for game 6.
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