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The NBA has ruled against the Denver Nuggets’ official protest following their loss against the Memphis Grizzlies on Nov. 8, league sources confirmed to BSN Denver.
League sources confirm that Nuggets official protest following loss in Memphis Nov. 8 has been denied.
— Harrison Wind (@HarrisonWind) November 24, 2016
Down 107-106, Memphis was awarded the ball after a Mike Conley steal that ended up out of bounds, which the league ultimately said was an incorrect call in their Last Two-Minute Report published Nov. 9.
The report stated that the call and conclusion made after the play that was reviewed on the floor were both incorrect and the Nuggets should have retained possession with 0.7 seconds remaining. The Grizzlies then scored on a Marc Gasol tip-in, on the subsequent play giving them the victory. This led to Nuggets’ President and Governor Josh Kroenke filing an official protest over the outcome of the game.
The NBA cited the fact that it was an error in judgment and not a direct “misapplication of playing rules” in their response but did confirm that the Nuggets should have had possession with 0.7 seconds remaining and not the Grizzlies.
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It is just a regular season game…but the NBA gave a bogus explanation about the ending of the Denver/Memphis game. The bottom line is that the NBA Replay Center is required to review all of the available camera angles in regard to the disputed play/action of the game. Apparently, they did not because the NBA admitted that their replay official missed the correct call. Their explanation that the replay official made an error in judgment is bogus because he clearly did not review the camera angle which the NBA used to definitively say that Mudiay did not touch the ball before it went out of bounds. If there was a clear camera angle on that play, it is not a difficult call to make that there was air space between Mudiay’s hand and the ball and the whole purpose of the NBA replay center is to have multiple officials review the designated play and get the right call if possible during the game, not after it. Therefore, because the NBA admitted that there was clear evidence that Denver should have had the 0.7 sec possession at the end of the game, they also provided worthy justification that there was a significant “misapplication of the playing rules” for an NBA game when the NBA replay center denied the Denver Nuggets the full procedural safeguards within the NBA’s capability to get the right call-specifically 1. to review all camera angles in a timely manner and 2. to have multiple replay officials review the disputed play and to discern the proper outcome. Simply put, if this was a playoff game or a NBA Finals game, don’t you think the NBA would have made sure to get the correct call before the game was over?