The NBA acknowledged on Wednesday quite a lot of officiating errors late within the Golden State Warriors’ 121-116 win over the Memphis Grizzlies in a Western Convention play-in sport on Tuesday evening in San Francisco.
Notably, with the seventh-place Warriors main 117-116, the NBA’s Final Two Minute Report mentioned the eighth-place Grizzlies ought to have been awarded the ball when Memphis’ Ja Morant reached in and knocked the ball away from Stephen Curry with 7.3 seconds left. The report mentioned Curry made final contact with the ball earlier than it went out of bounds.
With 5.4 seconds to play, Curry sank two free throws to increase the result in 119-116.
The report backed the officers on what occurred subsequent. After taking a timeout, the Grizzlies have been referred to as for a five-second turnover for failure to inbound the ball. Curry then iced the win by hitting two extra free throws with 3.4 seconds left.
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Two calls that weren’t made — however ought to have been — have been additionally famous within the report. With 1:29 to play, Golden State’s Draymond Inexperienced ought to have been whistled for a foul, his sixth, on Memphis’ Scotty Pippen Jr. It got here with the Warriors main 114-109. Inexperienced did get his sixth with 58.6 seconds left.
A non-call then helped the Grizzlies get inside 114-111 with 1:27 to play. The report indicated that Memphis’ large man Zach Edey ought to have been referred to as for offensive goaltending on a putback dunk.
With the victory, the Warriors earned the No. 7 spot within the West playoffs and a matchup with the No. 2 Houston Rockets. The Grizzlies have been relegated to enjoying the survivor of the Wednesday evening sport between the ninth-place Sacramento Kings and the Tenth-place Dallas Mavericks.