{"id":690916,"date":"2026-04-01T00:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690916\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:44:15","slug":"was-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-offensive-foul-the-correct-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/690916\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s offensive foul the correct call?"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 31, 2026, 6:00 p.m. CT<\/p>\n

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Surrounded by thousands who celebrated what they thought was a game-winner, Phenizee Ransom cosplayed as Eoyore. His whistle’s high-pitch zap was inaudible in the chaotic scene. But Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s demoralized body language hinted at what happened to the OKC crowd.<\/p>\n

Tied at 101 points apiece, Gilgeous-Alexander intercepted Daniss Jenkins’ pass. He had 12 seconds to cook up another MVP-esque moment. On an island with Javonte Green, the reigning MVP created enough space to knock down the stepback 3-pointer with four seconds left.<\/p>\n

What a finish. Gilgeous-Alexander scored the game-winner to help avoid the consequential upset. Instead, his clutch-time bucket was wiped away with an offensive foul. While technically correct, it was quite the gutsy call to make at that juncture of the game.<\/p>\n

Alas, no harm happened. The Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> survived an upset attempt with a 114-110 overtime win<\/a> over the Detroit Pistons<\/a>. Gilgeous-Alexander finished with 47 points on 12-of-19 shooting and went 21-of-25 on free throws.<\/p>\n

A day later, the L2M Report backed up the controversial call. Shouldn’t be a shocker. In the report, it stated: “Gilgeous-Alexander (OKC) extends his off-arm into Green (DET) and delivers contact that affects his ability to defend.”<\/p>\n

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In terms of mistakes made, only one happened \u2014 and it favored the Thunder. Jaylin Williams got away with a shooting foul on Jenkins at the 1:20 mark of the fourth quarter. The incorrect non-call was described: “Williams (OKC) lowers his left arm and initiates contact with Jenkins’ (DET) arm that affects his shot attempt.”<\/p>\n

And that’s all from the L2M report. Honestly, not bad. Especially considering how high-stakes things were from the Thunder. Their margin for error is paper-thin the rest of the way. They can’t afford to drop a gimme with the San Antonio Spurs right behind them for the first seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 31, 2026, 6:00 p.m. CT Surrounded by thousands who celebrated what they thought was a game-winner, Phenizee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[72400,7,6,310,475,179,3966,3965,30882,72482,72404,72471,72645,72484,72666,72485,72406,312,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-690916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-oklahoma","12":"tag-oklahoma-city","13":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","14":"tag-oklahomacity","15":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","16":"tag-sstssportsnbathunder","17":"tag-sstsnokc-thunder","18":"tag-tagbasketball","19":"tag-tagdetroit-pistons","20":"tag-tagjavonte-green","21":"tag-tagoklahoma-city-thunder","22":"tag-tagoverall-negative","23":"tag-tagshai-gilgeous-alexander","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-thunder","26":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690916","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=690916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}