It's early December in 2002 and you've just settled in to your favorite spot on the recliner to watch the Celtics take on the Phoenix Suns. You're eager to see Joe Johnson's return to Boston after being traded the season before for Tony Delk and Rodney Rogers. It's a competitive game until Paul Pierce makes a move to the basket, gets tangled up in mid-air with Amare Stoudemire, and goes down. Hard. He lands face first on the court and loses his teeth. He leaves the game briefly, but returns later on looking like a woozy boxer that just took a hit from Mike Tyson circa 1988. If you're at the game, you're wondering why there was no foul called. If you were at home, you witnessed one of Tommy Heinsohn's classic anti-referee outbursts.
"THESE GUYS ARE RIDICULOUS!" The video clip above says it all. While there is no video proof that shows Mike Gorman holding Tommy back from charging onto the parquet, looking to a...
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