This might get weird. From the Fanhouse:
Some flavor of detail regarding the circumstances in which 51 seconds of a protested December Heat loss to Atlanta will be replayed are surfacing. The Miami Herald passes on word that players marked inactive for the December game won't be eligible be the March affair, and it's possible any players acquired in trades between now and then will be ineligible as well. Jason Williams and Smush Parker were inactive; Atlanta's Josh Smith had already fouled out, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It's going to be one weird minute of basketball.
But it's unlikely it will get as weird as a replayed 1979 game the Cleveland Plain Dealer's Branson Wright relives on his blog.
[T]he most interesting do-over was on March 23, 1979. That's when the Philadelphia 76ers and the New Jersey Nets finished a game that began on Nov. 8, 1978. After the league upheld a protest by New Jersey, the game resumed from the point of infraction -- late in the third quarter.
Eric Money, Harvey Catchings and Ralph Simpson became the first players in professional sports history to play for both teams in the same game ... because they were traded by the 76ers and the Nets before the game was resumed. ... In the box score, Money scored 23 points for New Jersey and four points for the 76ers.
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