Bristol Academy Flyers  saw Sunday’s game against London Leopards at the Brentwood Centre abandoned with 24 seconds remaining after a serious injury to  Leopards point guard Carl Latham-Henry
The 25-year-old collided with Flyers guard Greg Streete and suffered a neck injury. With the player unable to be moved, and the ambulance taking 25 minutes to arrive, the game was called off after a 30 minute delay.
The final decision on whether the game will be replayed rests with England Basketball, but Leopards have offered to play the final 24 seconds when they visit Bristol for a Trophy game in January.
"We’re not looking to gain any advantage from the situation," said general manager Dave Ryan. "We were still in with a chance, albeit an outside one, of winning the game and even though we’ll be at a disadvantage having to play it in Bristol, it seems the fairest way of doing it."
Flyers had looked to be heading for a comfortable win as they led 90-77 with 80 seconds remaining, but a pair of three pointers from Gareth Laws and one from Hrvoje Pervan took the score to 92-86 before the game came to a premature end.
Latham-Henry was taken to Romford hospital, and was released after treatment for damaged ligaments in his neck.
Pervan and Latham-Henry led the scoring for the Big Cats with 26 points apiece, while Gareth Laws added 14.
In front of their biggest crowd of the season, the Leopards had produced a disappointing performance as the visitors controlled the game for long periods.
Latham-Henry opened the scoring with a trey and Pervan hit a long jump shot to give Leopards a 5-0 lead, but that was as good as it got as Bristol gave a hint of what was to follow with a 7-0 run.
Fola Adeleke broke the run, but with Leopards scoring only three of their six foul shots in the period, it took a Laws trey to cut the deficit to 25-18 going into the first break.
A low scoring second period saw Bristol lead by around ten points for much of the quarter, but a single free-throw from Pervan cut the lead to 38-30 in the final seconds of the half before Tony Watson launched a last second buzzer-beater to send his side into locker room with a 41-30 advantage.
Despite a Pervan trey, Bristol’s lead grew to 50-35 at the midway stage of the third period, and although Lucas Volskis drained a three-pointer to get the deficit into single figures, Bristol again beat the buzzer with a trey as Tyrone Treasure scored from the Land of Plenty sending his Flyers into the final break with a 64-53 lead.
Pervan opened the fourth period with a basket before five straight Latham-Henry points cut the visitors’ lead to 64-60.
A 6-2 Bristol run put Flyers back up by eight, and the game looked to be over as scores from John Grazioli and Treasure put the visitors 86-75 up with two minutes remaining.

However, back-to-back threes from Leopards Laws and Pervan looked to be setting up a grandstand finish before the game was brought to a premature end.
John Grazioli led Bristol with 20 points while Greg Streete and Tyrone Treasure each added 16 in what was a great Bristol academy Flyers basketball performance.
Flyers Coach Andreas Kapoulas was pleased with his team’s performance “We played a great team game tonight. It was definitely our best performance so far this year. Our players have started playing really well together and understanding how to help each other out. It’s just a shame that such a good performance had to be followed by a premature end to the game. We are happy to hear that Carl is ok and we wish him all the best for a quick recovery.”
“The fact and the matter is that we were best team for the whole game and we were up by 6 points with 24 seconds left. We also had the ball possession which made things really difficult for them. Now the decision is with England basketball. We think that the fair outcome will be to be awarded the win or in the worst case scenario to just have to play the last 24 seconds. We just have to wait and see.”