May 12, 1988 - On today's installment of "Sometimes Things Really Were Different in the 80's": Scottie Pippen gets kicked in the face, the Pistons rip the ball out of his cold, lifeless hands, officials just shrug it off and move on.
For those wondering, officials did, in fact, learn from their mistake. The following year, after Pippen absorbed an inadvertent Bill Laimbeer elbow to the face, Joey Crawford dragged Pippen's presumably dead body off the court so as not to interfere with the action. [ Ссылка ]&
Progress.
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