Too Much Rim

New York Knicks forward, Al Harrington decided, for a second time, to get a little too high grabbing the rim with a dunk over L.A. Clippers forward, Al Thorton.



With only 27.9 seconds left in the game against the Clippers, Harrington made a baseline spin towards the hoop for a great dunk to put the score at 127-124. The problem was that he was then called for a technical foul after he pulled his legs up to nearly the backboard.

This however was not Harrington's first time above the rim. In a previous game against the exact same team, with the score at 108-107, the Knicks lead, and only 25 seconds left on the clock, Harrington made a huge dunk, swung his feet up, and slapped the backboard with his hand. The exact same play...twice.


Coach Mike D'Antoni was not thrilled to say the least. In a Newsday.com article D'Antoni responded to Harrington's second launch into space saying, ""He thought somebody was under him, I don't know. I don't have an answer for you."

Harrington said multiple times in a postgame interview exactly what he told his coach. "Al Thornton walked underneath me and I let go of the rim." The hang was a little longer than necessary for someone to walk underneath, but Thorton was in the general vacinity.

Unfortunately for the Knicks, after the chin-up dunk, the Clippers tied the game at 127 when Eric Gordon made the technical, followed by Zac Randolph's two free-throws. The Clippers would go on to win in overtime 140-135.

2 technicals, 2 exact dunks, the same 2 teams, 2 losses for the Knicks.