{"id":545720,"date":"2026-01-19T00:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545720\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T00:50:17","slug":"thunder-on-wrong-side-of-2-mistakes-in-122-120-loss-to-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/545720\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder on wrong side of 2 mistakes in 122-120 loss to Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan. 18, 2026, 4:50 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

\"Jan<\/p>\n

Adding salt to the wound, the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> learned a new development in their miserable 122-120 loss<\/a> to the Miami Heat<\/a>. A couple of officiating mistakes compounded the two-point loss that came down to the final possession.<\/p>\n

The Last Two Minute Report was released. The NBA releases the report anytime a game enters clutch time \u2014 which they define as a five-point game in the final five minutes. In it, there were two mistakes pointed out that went against the Thunder.<\/p>\n

The first was a controversial one that went viral on social media. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was called for an offensive foul with 1:14 left in the fourth quarter. The critical turnover took away a scoring possession. The L2M Report says that it should’ve been called a foul on Pelle Larsson.<\/p>\n

The L2M report states: “Larsson (MIA) is drawn into the air on the pump fake towards Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC), and contact occurs to Gilgeous-Alexander’s body during his upward shooting motion. Gilgeous-Alexander does not overtly jump towards Larsson to initiate the contact, therefore a shooting foul on Larsson should have been assessed instead.”<\/p>\n

The other mistake went under the radar. Norman Powell got away with a backcourt violation with 0:18 left in the fourth quarter. That should’ve given the ball to OKC with a chance to either tie it or hit the potential game-winner.<\/p>\n

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The L2M report states: “Powell (MIA) establishes positive frontcourt position, and his right foot makes contact with the midcourt line while he is in possession of the ball.”<\/p>\n

Despite all of that, the Thunder had the chance to win it at the buzzer. With three seconds left, Gilgeous-Alexander’s gravity created a decent look from outside for Alex Caruso in the final three seconds. He missed the attempt.<\/p>\n

The bigger story out of this game was Jalen Williams’ injury, though. He sustained a hamstring strain in the second quarter. Remains to be seen how much time he misses, but it’s a bummer as he started to pick up some momentum in recent games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan. 18, 2026, 4:50 p.m. CT Adding salt to the wound, the Oklahoma City Thunder learned a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[72400,7,144,295,189,3881,6,30882,72482,72564,72404,72488,72442,72444,72422,72484,72666,73309,72485,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-545720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sstssportsnbathunder","16":"tag-sstsnokc-thunder","17":"tag-tagalex-caruso","18":"tag-tagbasketball","19":"tag-tagjalen-williams","20":"tag-tagmiami-heat","21":"tag-tagnational-sports","22":"tag-tagnba","23":"tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagpelle-larsson","26":"tag-tagshai-gilgeous-alexander","27":"tag-tagsports-news","28":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115919024116359129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}