Nuggets file protest over loss to Grizzlies after NBA admits blown call
The Denver Nuggets on Thursday filed an official protest with the NBA over their one-point lossto the Memphis Grizzlies earlier this week, in response to the league acknowledging in its Last Two Minutes post-mortem report that both the referees on-site and the replay officials at the NBA Replay Center in Secaucus, N.J., made an incorrect call that played a major role in the unfolding of the game’s final play.
The play in question began when the Nuggets had the ball and a one-point lead with 4.7 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter on Tuesday night:
Denver’s Mike Miller attempted to inbound the ball to teammate Nikola Jokic, but his pass was too high, going off Jokic’s fingertips and eventually getting corralled by Mike Conley.
The Grizzlies point guard dribbled into the frontcourt, looking for a transition layup that would give his team the lead, but he lost the ball out of bounds under the basket with less than one second remaining.
The refs called the ball out on Denver on the floor, believing Nuggets point guard Emmanuel Mudiay had touched the ball after Conley lost it. The decision then went to Secaucus, where replay officials reviewed the angles and evidence available to them and confirmed the call, giving Memphis back the ball on the baseline under the basket, down by one, with 0.7 seconds remaining.
That thrilling inbounds lob hook-up between passer Vince Carter and finisher Marc Gasol gave Memphis the win, and left the Nuggets — especially Mudiay, who insisted he never touched the ball after Conley lost it — feeling jobbed. The league validated that feeling when it released theLast Two Minutes report breakdown of Nuggets-Grizzlies on Wednesday:
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There were other missed calls listed in the L2M report that benefited the Nuggets — namely, two separate uncalled violations on Mudiay and Gary Harris on a play several seconds earlier that Denver turned into two points to take the lead — but this one specifically impacted the circumstances that resulted in a game-winning (and game-losing) play. Getting the after-the-factmea culpa from the league only angered the Nuggets further, and made them consider taking action, as head coach Michael Malone said during the team’s shootaround prior to Thursday night’s meeting with the Golden State Warriors.
There were other missed calls listed in the L2M report that benefited the Nuggets — namely, two separate uncalled violations on Mudiay and Gary Harris on a play several seconds earlier that Denver turned into two points to take the lead — but this one specifically impacted the circumstances that resulted in a game-winning (and game-losing) play. Getting the after-the-factmea culpa from the league only angered the Nuggets further, and made them consider taking action, as head coach Michael Malone said during the team’s shootaround prior to Thursday night’s meeting with the Golden State Warriors.
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