ONLY hours after Dwight Howard was ejected for accumulating two technical fouls against the Boston Celtics on Monday night, the NBA announced that the Atlanta Hawks center should not have been removed from the game.

    Howard’s second technical — which he received for hanging on the rim after a third-quarter dunk — should have been deemed a non-unsportsmanlike tech, which does not count towards ejections.

    Howard posted 17 points, 12 rebounds, and two blocks in 27 minutes of action against the Celtics, but the Hawks managed to outscore Boston 40-34 in the 16:03 following the big man’s ejection, en route to a 114-98 road victory.

    Non-unsportsmanlike technicals also aren’t factored into the 16-technical threshold that nets a player an automatic one-game suspension, so Howard’s season count stands at 10 following Monday’s shenanigans, rather than 11.(SD-Agencies)