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This Actually Happened: NBA Ref Charges Court to Block Player’s Shot

Dec. 13, 2012 7:00am Jonathon M. Seidl

Before today, you might not have known who Courtney Kirkland was, but you’re about to see a lot of him.

That’s because Kirkland pulled a move during Wednesday night’s Nets-Raptors game that became an instant classic. During the fourth quarter of the game, Nets player Kris Humphries (yes, the one that was married to Kim Kardashian) was shooting a free throw. But right before he was about to release the ball, Kirklinand charged the court, lept, and tried to block Humphries’ shot. It’s one of the oddest plays you’ll see.

Let’s start with a frame-by-frame:

And now the video:

So why did he do it? Well, at the last minute Kirkland noticed a player was trying to sub into the game. So instead of just blowing his whistle, he went all Michael Jordan. Naturally.

As for the game, SB Nation has you covered:

That was just about the best defense that anyone played on the night against the Nets, who defeated Toronto, 94-88. Humphries put up just 11 points and two rebounds, as the Nets were carried by Joe Johnson, C.J. Watson and the resurgent Andray Blatche.

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perry1980
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 11:14am
Wow he’s got HOPS

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sbish
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:51am
One of the great things about sports is that even after having watched 1000s of hours of sports, every now and then, you see something that you have never seen before.

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 9:11am
Only someone with a superiority complex would do this instead of simply using the whistle.

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mzk1
Posted on December 14, 2012 at 4:36am
I’m just happy to see “Brooklyn” on an uniform, after all of of these years.

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grumpy77
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:59pm
I thought they were on strike.

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chazmo
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:21pm
Oh Muffy, you’re not fooling anyone. Troll. Obvious plant.

As for the topic. I thought whistles were for this very thing.

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LeadNotFollow
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:29pm
This is the ObamaNation that our President has created.
Let a White guy do the same thing to a Black player and see the outrageous consequences.
A White guy would have been beat nearly to death, right on the spot.

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- GUYFROMMAINE
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 5:17pm
  Really???? Can you look past the color of the skin and just see the humor?
  
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- Shasta
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:57pm
  Maybe you are both right.
  
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CitizenVetUSA
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:23pm
A game that morphed into as for only players that are genetic freaks of nature thanks to the altered food by Monsanto and others.

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dont-care-anymore
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:38pm
NB who???

pfft circus’

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muffythetuffy
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:48pm
All white athletes when competing against Blacks should be required to carry 100 pound sacks of sand on their backs. Its only fair.

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- sacklunch
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:15pm
  You are as embarrassing to the conservative side as Ed Schultz is to lefties. Grow up chump! What the fluck does color have to do with anything this article was about?!?! Go find a story on here about blacks beating the **** out of each other at a Denny’s if you need to make dumb comments.
  
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- iampraying4u
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:37pm
  they should call it dunk ball
  
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- Anonymous T. Irrelevant
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:40pm
  I think they should raise the goals to 12 feet now, so that the game requires skill, again, instead of an ability to just jump and stuff it in.
  
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- BlessedONE333
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:29pm
  why do I get the feeling you are secretly chris matthews? lol
  
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- N37BU6
  Posted on December 15, 2012 at 8:24pm
  Why not? After all, you libs lower the bar for them when it comes to cognitive tasks… might as well round out the racism, right?
  
  I can’t wait until liberalism is stamped out. Too bad it will take total collapse as an example first. But at least it will be irrefutable.
  
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horsehockey
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:47am
Haven’t watched the NBA in years, hope it disappears from societal clutter. Besides, I thought Refs had whistles to control the game.

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:51pm
  LOOK AT ALL THOSE WHITES WATCHING A ***** BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION GAME WITH NEW RULES.
  
  The new rules are that every white player must wear a 100 pound back pack filled with sand and every Black team has a Black referee who gets to play.
  
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GoodStuff
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:32am
The NBA still exists?? Who knew?

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- HumbleMan
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:16pm
  Obviously a racist organization. What about the height disparity? Everyone should be able to jump as high as everyone else.
  
  If we use the same model as is used in University admissions, it wouldn’t matter that white men can’t jump.
  
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DogTags
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:20am
I stopped watching the NBA when it became nothing but ‘hood basketball with gang-style clothing, hideous tattoos and brandings, players more worried about respect than about talent, not being a team sport anymore (i.e. Iverson shooting 70 times a game, of course at least 10 will drop in the hoop). The Rap culture ruined the NBA.

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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:53am
  That same characteristics can be applied to the NFL as well….all tattoos, piercings, getting drunk in clubs, shooting people like your baby mama, crashing and killing people and teammates while drunk… same crap..
  same bunch of self entitled idiots…players and owners…
  just one season of each with nobody going and you would see ticket prices drop to $10 a game…like most MLB parks..or even $30 would be responible..if the food and drinks didn’t cost $8 for a hotdog and drink…
  
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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:05pm
  $10 a game for MLB? What fantasy world are you living in? You haven’t been able to get into a MLB park for $10 since about 1994, and even then those were mostly the relatively few “cheap seats” that had obstructed views or other reasons nobody wanted them.
  
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- TheWhiteFalcon
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Depends on the venue. I can usually get Diamondbacks tickets for about $8 as long as it’s not a ‘premier’ (aka Red Sox, Yankees) game.
  
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grayling646
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:13am
The NBA is still around, huh?

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Codger
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:06am
This was a totally stupid move on the refs part. He should be suspended for a month and told to attend classes on the right way to handle “an extra player on the floor”.

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jamespubliusmadison
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:52am
negative comment

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:12am
  DON’T LET THE WHITE MAN WIN, STOP HIM…
  
  White people are in a dangerous state of denial when Prominent Blacks state before a packed auditorium that BLACKS SHOULD KILL ALL WHITES and the Black audience cheers and applauds. The German Jews were still in a state of denial even when Nazis were packing them into box cars.
  
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ClaudeRains
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:21am
Thug Basketball Association. Who cares?

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:16am
  How many fouls were called against the white team. HOW MANY? Beck is wrong about Loving everyone, Heaven even has gates and is guarded by armed angles. Even God has Legions of armed angles. God wants white people armed just like his angles are armed.
  
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- sacklunch
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 1:18pm
  MUFFYTHETUFFY, you got problems! Are you one of those dip-**** whites who never amounted to anything in life and feel the need to blame your failures on another group of people? The comments you’ve made sure do imply that.
  
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- VanceUppercut
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 2:00pm
  @muffythetuffy
  
  Yeah, we’d better watch out for those armed “angles”. LOL. Hataz gotta hate and trollaz gotta troll.
  
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MMSands
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:03am
The main ting wrong with MSM is that what we see is controlled by a group with groupthink mentality who decide what constitutes a story, and what does not. This would explain all the people who come to the Blaze commentary section. They want to be the groupthinking group who makes the decisions as to what the rest of us should think of as news, and hope to get a chance to do so by opining here.

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- chazmo
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 6:24pm
  Well there are those that have some excellent ideas and comments. Then there’s those who judge. Then there are those that just laugh at some of you. Seems like a pretty diverse group.
  
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dvwrld
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:36am
When the refs are more of the reason to watch it becomes just another reason not to watch.
Way to go David Stern!

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hempstead1944
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:27am
Stupidity reaches yet another low in the NBA…..

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Steve
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:17am
the brooklyn nets? I guess it’s been awhile since I watched basketball

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- Rowgue
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 12:08pm
  That just changed this year.
  
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BetterInformed
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:54am
How about a little of the Cooking Channel for additional excitement.

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- ESmith7
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:06am
  I love the NBA!! This is actually funny!!!
  
  And some of you people who constantly feel the need to comment on a article about “how you don’t care” or whatever nonsense, get a life!!!! I read TheBlaze constantly and all I see some of you do is write extremely negative comments….. I’m waiting for someone who will turn this basketball story into a anti-Obama rant…… Enough already, enjoy the article for what it is. Something funny. Enjoy the article for what it’s not, its not an Obama article.
  
  Some of you need a life, stop being so negative. You just turn people off.
  
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- mcmeador
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:10am
  lol
  
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- HowTruthHurts
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 10:13am
  @ESmith7
  
  Ironically, in protest of negative comments you posted a negative comment. Also ironically, in protest of bringing politics into non-political articles you brought politics into a non-political article.
  
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- grayling646
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 11:18am
  I would have to respond by saying anyone who wastes their time watching the NBA also needs to get a life so it seems we’re both in the same boat.
  
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huey6367
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:38am
Watched the video. Don’t care.

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JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:11am
Basketball is a boring game. I turn it on to get to sleep.

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- piper60
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:27am
  College basketball, like college hockey, is much more exciting than it’s professional yawn fest. I live in Boston, and don’t bother to watch the Celtics on t.v.
  
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- Master K
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 7:54am
  I miss hockey… Going through major withdrawal right now.
  
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- SilentRunner
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:03am
  You must be “watching” pro basketball. Try watching college basketball if you want to be entertained.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:31am
  Sorry but watching college basketball is like watching single A minor league baseball. I don’t know which NBA games your watching but pro basketball is exciting. The Cavs/Lakers game the other night was one of the most exciting basketball games I’ve watched in a long time.
  
  Not as exciting as hockey though. Stupid NHLPA.
  
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- huey6367
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 8:36am
  @master K
  
  I am with ya on that. I love hockey. I am in Florida and we don’t have pro basketball here (thank God). So I am stuck with football until hockey gets it together. Don’t mind football but like hockey better.
  
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- jman-6
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 9:17am
  huey- What do you call the Miami Heat or the Orlando Magic? CBA?
  
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- LeadNotFollow
  Posted on December 13, 2012 at 4:33pm
  Don’t those noisy squeaking shoes keep you awake?
  
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