NEW YORK (AFP) – NBA officials rescinded a technical foul issued to New York's Amare Stoudemire after reviewing the call on Friday, enabling the playmaker to suit up for the Knicks on Sunday against Indiana.

Stoudemire was assessed his 16th technical foul of the season in a 127-109 loss at Dallas on Thursday, a mark that what normally would see a one-game ban imposed because of accumulated season technical fouls.

Brendan Haywood of Dallas and Stoudemire, who were each called for technicals off the same play, were laughing about the call after referee Bennett Salvatore whistled them.

The reversal is the third overturned technical foul for Stoudemire this season. Once 16 technicals have been reached, every second technical foul picked up thereafter brings a one-game ban.