The NBA has denied the Mavericks‘ protest of their loss to the Warriors on March 22, the league announced (via Twitter).
The protest was filed due to the Mavs’ claim that an officiating error occurred late in the third quarter, leading to an uncontested basket for Golden State (video link from The Athletic). All five Dallas players were on the opposite side of the court as the Warriors inbounded the ball, resulting in an easy dunk for Kevon Looney.
The league notes that there were nearly 14 minutes remaining in the game when the incident occurred, and the Mavericks later took the lead twice in the last four minutes. Thus, the protest failed because the Mavs were unable to prove that they were “deprived of a fair opportunity to win the game,” according to the NBA.
After the game, Mavs owner Mark Cuban incorrectly claimed that the officials signaled it was Dallas’ ball prior to a timeout and then changed the call to award Golden State possession without informing the Mavs. However, in their formal written protest, the Mavs agreed that the refs had initially awarded the ball to the Warriors.
The NBA says that while the “officials could have taken steps to better manage” the situation, it did not warrant the “extraordinary remedy” of upholding the protest.
This is embarrassing for all parties
Explain how this is embarrassing for GSW.
touch grass kiddo
This is embarrassing for you.. truly
Probably less embarrassing than being the self proclaimed “top commentator” on a board you constantly get flamed on…
Being right all the time doesn’t always make you popular. I can live with that.
And no one says touch grass anymore bro lmao
Yet you are neither right nor popular? Im confused.
Burn…
To no one’s surprise, Lil D has bars just like someone with a lil d would have.
Sorry Lil D you come off as sillivans big brother, cut from the same mold.
Lil guy, I heard three different people say they were touching grass TODAY. So, you’re just in here constantly flaming mindless nonsense 24-7? Are the mods seeing this?
Can we get GSW posts without this 3 IQ moms basement loser cluttering up the threads? Can everyone report his posts? This isnt a legit poster, they are violating the rules relentlessly.
Are you a Rockets, Clippers or Thunder fan? Or another fanbase Steph Curry has pwned (haha now -thats- a word no one says anyone – see, I beat you out on your own level – now take off).
Lol 3 people told you to touch grass in one day? And you come on the internet to tell me the same thing? Lmaooo
Does touching grass mean smoking a J? If so I would take it as a compliment and light up
Go to bed
DBrooks! I knew you’d have my back
A. Silver strikes again
Hey Kurtis whyd you back out on our bet??
Get a life. Go outside. Stop posting on every Warriors HoopsRumors posts when everyone knows you are only here to be a hater and on top of that youre literally breaking the terms of service every time you post in Warriors threads when you do come in here to start trouble and badmouth GSW in some backhanded or direct way.
@mods – please ban this guy, he’s not here for legit reasons. The rest of us just want to talk about our team without this guy destroying the threads and making it about him. I dont even know this guy and I dont want to.
I’m reporting this post because it breaks the terms of service by not discussing basketball and is a malicious attack on an innocent commenter
No embarrassment for the Warriors here
Disagree. They should have acknowledged the error in the moment. Instead they showboat. Typical entitled Warriors behavior.
Embarrassing is the Mavs players went to the wrong basket. Even if they thought it was their ball why wouldn’t they have players on that side of the floor?
And here it is: the reason why you came in here, to start trouble and badmouth Warriors fans. Are @mods seeing this? Are you Tim Dierkes unbannable son or something? There’s no way you can keep getting away with doing what you’re doing – violating the terms of service.
Wah wah wah. If you don’t like me use the mute button like all the other cowards. You’re too easy to dunk on anyway. Next!
You sure ‘bout that?
There needs to be an ability to reset when things go hayware… And it needs to be taken out of the hands of thr officials on the floor… Have video refs who watch each play make the call to reset time and score when it’s warranted…
Thus the NBA would avoid all of the hysteria and conspiracy theories that come with officiating a fast paced game…
Shouldn’t the coach know which basket the last play happened under?
Tell me you don’t understand conspiracy theories without telling me
News Flash: The NBA isn’t going to side with Cuban.
Poor Mavs …………. Jalen’s father must have a hand in this .
Ha!
Poor Mavs. Probably hurt their chances that they had no case.
Probably should never listen to anything Kyrie says to do, that seems like sound, solid advice.
Wow look who came here for the sole purpose of insulting Mavs fans. Some of us would like to stick to basketball talk, not baseless attacks…
Actually, with slow motion replay can proof, the ref made the call right, but nearly the whole Mav’s misunderstood. No one changed the call, so no one informed the Mav’s.
Just fire silver