You decided to make the hockey/basketball comparison. The implication was that because hockey thinks it's ok to govern the end of it's games this way, that basketball should too. That was the way I took it. My point was that I don't think that hockey is flawless, and the fist fighting was merely the most egregious example of that. In any case, even ignoring the fighting, I don't think that because hockey does it, is any justification for the NBA doing it.