LeBron gets heated, Clarkson throws ball at Saric for breaking unwritten NBA rule

Whether you like it or not, there’s an unwritten rule in the NBA that the winning team isn’t allowed to score with fewer than 24 seconds left — they have to run out the clock instead. We can sit here and discuss the merits and fairness of this policy, but it is what it is, and on Thursday we saw what happens when a player decides to go rogue. With 12 seconds left in the Philadelphia 76ers’ 108-97 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Sixers forward Dario Saric decided he would take the wide-open lane the Cavs were giving him and dunk the ball. Big mistake. Cavs guard Jordan Clarkson was the first one on the scene, and retaliated by throwing the basketball into Saric’s back. The rest of the Cavs