Should the Knicks have been given more time Wednesday night?

It's the game that won't stop giving. And, as it turns out, Boston's Wednesday win over New York should probably have gone on a few tenths of a tick longer than it did. And it's possible that the game shouldn't have ended with Boston winning the thing.

At one point Wednesday night there were 11 NBA games playing at the same time, and usually with a bounty like that, you're bound to flip to try and catch the next-most exciting thing. It's only natural, and because of the ubiquity of the usual go-to teams you see on national television, usually the next-most exciting thing is on League Pass, somewhere.

Not Wednesday night.

Wednesday night's Celtics/Knicks game was an unmitigated classic, a Madison Square Garden-influenced nail-biter that allowed for all sorts of drama as the teams traded baskets down the stretch. And yet, while the game's first 47:45 was heaps of fun, it was those final 15 seconds that we can't stop reliving through the majesty of online video.

And because we've seen our fill of Paul Pierce's game-winning shot or the game-winning shot that the referees rightfully took away from Amar'e Stoudemire because it came a few tenths of a second after the buzzer sounded, we have to look toward the more surprising elements of the Celtics win.

Like Kevin Garnett bowing to the crowd (as pictured above), ostensibly toward Knicks superfan Spike Lee, following Pierce's clutch dagger.

Or Nate Robinson, no joke, nearly breaking his neck in the ensuing celebration:

Or the fact that Stoudemire's game-winning three, as timed by a New York-area television producer, actually took just under .7 of a second to release, which would make it quite nearly legal if the refs had handed the Knicks .7 of a second to play with following Pierce's make.

All of this is courtesy of the hard work of CBSSports.com's Matt Moore, who found this photo from Twitter user TheYankeeU following the Knicks loss:

You can see the ball splashing out of the net as the clock runs to .6 of a second left in the game, which means that the ball probably went in the net with .7 or even .8 of a second. The Knicks were handed .4 of a second to work with on their final possession, but it's not uncommon for referees to add more time to the clock if they think the scorekeeper was a little slow or quick with his trigger finger.

Does any of this invalidate the Boston win in any way? Of course not. Does it mean the Celtics got away with one? Even a day later, that's still a tough sell to this guy. But it still fascinates how things come down to such minute details, especially when given the added bonus of a 6-10 guy tossing in a perfect shot from 26-feet away from the hoop, only to see the shot negated because of a buzzer that came a little too early.

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