It’s interesting that we have a brand new replay center but we’re getting appeals from Sacramento because they thought Courtney Lee’s game winner was after the buzzer.
Come on people! What are the Kings seeing!
Nevertheless. The NBA took it into consideration and according to ESPN.com. It’s been rejected. Surprise surprise.
The NBA said Friday that commissioner Adam Silver has denied the Sacramento Kings’ protest of a Nov.13 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies.
The Kings said Courtney Lee’s game-winning shot should have been disqualified as having been made after time expired. Silver determined that the game officials’ call that Lee’s shot was timely was within their judgment and not a misapplication of the playing rules. Sacramento’s protest therefore did not justify the extraordinary remedy of overturning the game’s result.
Memphis won 111-110 on Lee’s last-second basket. The play was reviewed on the court by officials. They not only checked whether Lee got the shot off before the buzzer, but whether the Kings tipped the inbounds pass. That would have started the clock earlier, causing time to run out before Lee’s attempt.
The Kings blew a 26-point lead in the loss.
Do you think this is only because the Kings blew a 26 point lead? Do you think there’s a bit of saltiness there. Disbelief maybe that they blew such a comfortable lead?
Whatever the reason, this shouldn’t even have taken this long. I know Adam Silver has a busy schedule but how did it take over 15 days to reject this?
