An NBA player once played for both teams in the same game. We can explain. #NBA #76ers #Nets

An NBA player once played for both teams in the same game. We can explain. #NBA #76ers #Nets

the New Jersey Nets are playing the 76ers Bernard King is already sitting on One technical foul and he gets his second Tech so he is ejected from the game on the way out he kicks a chair in the tunnel and the referee gives him a third technical okay what you can’t do the game continues the Nets lose in double overtime those technicals mattered they matter quite a bit so the Nets protest the game the commissioner of the time Larry O’Brien says yes we will replay the game at another date starting at the time when the third technical happens but this replay of the game does not happen until March and the original game happens in November in the intervening months the two teams conduct a two for two trade of players on their teams one of which is Eric money so by the time we get to the replay in March he’s playing for the opposite team and becomes the only player in NBA history to be listed your face is the perfect response to this story

When the 76ers and Nets played in 1978, it felt like any other game. But after referee Richie Powers started giving out technicals to everyone in sight, it went off the rails.