The NBA Board of Governors has approved the use of instant replay for Flagrant Foul Penalty II calls, which result in the ejection of the player involved.

Sounds like a good idea to me.

According to the NBA release, “the Committee thought that the game

Officials’ first priority should be ending the altercation and that, in the course of doing so, they might not see a punch or other unsportsmanlike act committed by a player that might call for ejection.The use of instant replay will assist the officials in sorting out penalties after they have ended the altercation.”

Altercations like this are rare, so using replay to sort out penalties won’t slow the vast majority of games down. But it will see that justice is served. Once a player is tossed, his role in a game is over and there’s no going back. Fines can be reversed upon review, but the outcome of a game can’t be, so it only makes sense to get the call right at the time.