From SBNation: “The NBA is off on Saturday to prepare for the final day of the regular season on Sunday, but the Grizzlies’ scorekeeper may have clocked out a little early during the team’s Friday loss against the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers got a closer-than-it-should-have-been, 123-120 victory over the remains of the Grizzlies in Memphis on Friday night to give themselves a chance to hold onto the eighth seed heading into the NBA play-in, but it turns out that they might have had to hold onto their lead a little longer than was necessary.
On Saturday morning, NBA Twitter user Ramiro Bentes noticed that due to a mistake made during a shot clock reset, the Lakers and Grizzlies accidentally played more than a minute of extra game time… and apparently neither team noticed:
‘Just realized the Lakers and Grizzlies played 13:06 minutes in the 3rd quarter last night. When the shot clock was supposed to be reset at 1:14, the game clock was also accidentally reset to 2:20. No one noticed and they played the rest of the way with the new game clock.’”
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This plus the L2M report is craY
The grizzlies should challenge this results just to say “fuck you” to the Lakers for knocking them out last season
All of LeBron’s scoring records are now suspect.
Grizzlies scorekeepers always catching Ls
LeAlwaysCheatin’ lmao
I watched the whole game and also didnt notice. Thats so crazy that nobody noticed.
How? like the 30 players + however many team staff and 3 refs, not a single person looked at the clock to see the clock magically gain 1m?
It’s the shot clock. Last time they stopped the game over and over again because of shot clock error, and LeBron literally had to stand there for 7 minutes doing nothing. Such a shitshow
Basketball Reference has already updated the play-by-play with timestamps accounting for the clock.
So…. Lebron beat Father Time?
So this means those calls that went the Lakers easy in the last minute of the two minute report don’t count
NBA really wants the Lakers in them playoffs 😂
Sadly it seems no one played enough time to achieve the coveted 49 minutes in regulation.
Ban LeBron