Something is up with the clock and the Lakers. A month ago was the farce of the Lakers-Warriors of the Crypto.com Arena – the game took 23 minutes to finish in its last two minutes due to a timing failure -, and another unusual serious error from a league like the NBA in the early hours of Friday to Saturday in the match that those in purple and gold they won Memphis Grizzlies (120-123).
As the American league acknowledged in a statement on Saturday, the clock began to indicate in the final stretch of the third quarter that there were 2:20 left when the remaining time was 1:14. Neither the teams, the referees, the clock operator or the personnel controlling the statistics noticed the error.
At the time, the Grizzlies led 97-94 after exhausting one possession without scoring. Although one might think that the Lakers benefited this time because they were the team that was behind, the score in that extra time that was accidentally added was from 2-2.
However, those in purple and gold received referee help in up to three errors also recognized by the American league.
With 1:42 left to play and the Los Angeles team up 116-117, LeBron James His steps would have had to be signaled on a play in which the Lakers did not score.
However, with 47.7 seconds remaining and with Darvin Ham’s team down 118-117, the referees once again turned a blind eye to LeBron’s steps, who ended up witnessing a Rui Hachimura that put the Lakers ahead.
The thing did not end there, but the referees also ignored a foul by Hachimura on GG Jackson with 12 seconds left when he was shooting and the Grizzlies still had options being down 118-121.
Although making mistakes is human, the referees helped and not infrequently helped the Lakers, who will defend today in a complicated game against the Pelicans (21:30) their eighth position to enter the play-in with two opportunities to qualify for the playoffs.
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2024-04-14 07:17:38
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