The Portland Path Blazers are submitting a protest to the NBA to problem the results of a loss to the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder on Tuesday, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Portland says coach Chauncey Billups was calling a timeout previous to Malcolm Brogdon getting referred to as for a double-dribble with a 109-108 lead and 15.6 seconds left.
A furious Billups was assessed two technical fouls and ejected from the sport.
Billups stated he and Brogdon have been making an attempt to name timeout on the possession.
“We’ve acquired timeouts,” Billups stated. “Referees often are ready for that, you already know, that occasion, that scenario. I’m at half court docket, making an attempt to name a timeout. It’s simply irritating. My guys performed too arduous for that, it’s a irritating play.”
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander made certainly one of two free throws to tie the rating, then Jalen Williams linked on a mid-range jumper in site visitors with two seconds left to win it for the Thunder.
Wojnarowski writes that crew chief Invoice Kennedy informed a pool reporter that the referee was targeted on the play in entrance of him, making it difficult to listen to Billups.
“The referee within the slot place was refereeing the double group that was proper in entrance of him, which makes it troublesome for primary to listen to and quantity two to see a coach request a timeout behind him,” Kennedy stated. “He’s taught to referee the play till completion, which a double dribble occurs, and he accurately calls the double dribble after which pursuant (to that) the technical fouls come ahead.”
A group should pay $10,000 to protest a name and it’s refunded if profitable.
The league has upheld protests simply six instances, ESPN studies.
The protest got here on the identical day the NBA introduced that refs acquired 10 calls fallacious within the ultimate two minutes of a Charlotte-Minnesota recreation on Monday.
— with recordsdata from AP.
