{"id":60057,"date":"2025-05-27T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/60057\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T20:24:08","slug":"lebron-james-baffled-by-hawk-eye-camera-review-in-nba-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/60057\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James baffled by Hawk-Eye camera review in NBA playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Athletes in media are supposed to bring behind-the-scenes insights from the throes of competition, and LeBron James delivered this week on his NBA podcast\u00a0Mind the Game.<\/p>\n

While his Los Angeles Lakers were defeated by the Minnesota Timberwolves in five games, one moment in particular is sticking with James all these days later. In Game 4 of the series, James fell victim to Sony\u2019s new Hawk Eye camera technology when officials reviewed a call at the basket and ultimately tagged him with a foul.<\/p>\n

It was one of several first-round calls that were overturned as a result of referees\u2019 use of Hawk Eye technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a piece of camera work in the postseason, of our game in Minnesota, that I have never seen in my f*cking life,\u201d James recalled on\u00a0Mind the Game\u00a0this week<\/a>. \u201cWhere the f*ck did that camera come from?\u201d<\/p>\n

James\u2019 cohost, Steve Nash, agreed.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlso, it didn\u2019t look like it was in HD. It looked like a 2006 Go-Pro,\u201d Nash added.<\/p>\n

James compared it to a CSI-level study.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like some forensic fouls type s*it,\u201d James laughed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The call was in the final minute of a must-win game for the Lakers, so it\u2019s no surprise it\u2019s still on James\u2019 mind. It may not have decided the series, but players, fans and media already decry the NBA\u2019s extensive use of replay technology late in games. The Hawk Eye camera provides yet another angle for footage to check on bang-bang plays.<\/p>\n

When a player like LeBron James is acting on instinct in the heat of a moment and a camera in the rafters \u2014 where referees would never be viewing a game \u2014 can overturn a call, it has to be frustrating. James was a good sport about it in hindsight, but this won\u2019t be the last we hear from players and coaches about this bird\u2019s-eye view camera deciding big postseason moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Athletes in media are supposed to bring behind-the-scenes insights from the throes of competition, and LeBron James delivered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1431,7,1691,185,150,14965,152,6,11],"class_list":{"0":"post-60057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-2025-nba-playoffs","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-hawk-eye","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-mind-the-game","14":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114581672594530824","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60057","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=60057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}