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What Happened
With less than 30 seconds remaining in the game, the Los Angeles Lakers trail the Minnesota Timberwolves by 3 points. The Timberwolves have possession and are trying to run out the clock to secure the victory. However, the Lakers' superstar LeBron James has other plans. As the Timberwolves attempt to milk the clock, forward Anthony Edwards passes the ball to an open teammate, but the shot misses. LeBron James grabs the rebound and quickly pushes the ball up the court, setting up for a potential game-tying 3-pointer. As the clock winds down, James rises up and drills the clutch shot, tying the game at 105-105 and sending the crowd into a frenzy. But the celebration is short-lived, as the referees review the play and determine that James' foot was on the 3-point line, making it a 2-point basket instead of a 3-pointer. "That's bullshit!" James yells, pointing at the replay on the screen which appears to show his toe barely on the line. Lakers center Anthony Davis and Timberwolves forward Jarred Vanderbilt join James in arguing the call, but the officials uphold the 2-point ruling. With the Lakers now trailing by 1 point, James steps to the free-throw line with 1.4 seconds remaining, needing to make both shots to tie the game. He calmly sinks the first, then drains the second to even the score at 106-106. However, the Lakers are unable to get another shot off before time expires, sending the game to overtime. "What if he didn't call that?" a fan is heard saying, lamenting the costly officiating decision that denied the Lakers a chance to win the game in regulation. Head coach Darvin Ham and the Lakers' coaching staff continue to plead their case to the officials, but to no avail. In the end, the Timberwolves hold on to win 124-121 in overtime, but the controversial call on LeBron James' potentially game-tying 3-pointer will undoubtedly be a topic of discussion long after the final buzzer.
Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentthe lakers are down three with less than 30 seconds to go in the game timberwolves have the
ball all they got to do is kill the clock out run it down put up the shot have it go in boom
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and oh passes it uh passes it uh shoots it misses a rebound to lebron he's gonna pull up for the
three tie game yes no ref said only two points runs like what oh what are you talking about
coach did you hear that that kid's filming home lebron's gonna hit himself in the forehead a kid
behind him just laughing at his face guy behind him is explaining it to her like thank god i'm
here they said it was two points he wanted three points what would you do without me lebron's
trying to find the replay girl behind oh is he mad mom take a picture is he
mad
that's so bad oh my goodness did we get lucky i had officials like yeah i'm just gonna send it
up to them man okay we're cool i know that you got your call says let's review it let's go to
the tape and now the tape's pretty wild you can see ref's got his eyes right down at his feet
he's doing his job lebron pulls up and when he pulls up to shoot he kind of the toe kind of
comes forward just a little bit and gets the line right there maybe we're thinking
does it get the line i think yeah it gets the line i don't know it's very close very close
there's a frame right before where it looks like he's not on it then right before he gets some air
right there it looks like yeah toes on the line but it's kind of like what angle you're looking at
oh that's two two points yeah so he's convinced because it benefits him the refs they're waiting
for the call and two two two points
uh-oh
uh-oh
uh-oh
lebron is mad now he's pointing at the screen oh look look look look because the freeze frame's
up that shows a little bit of a gap look look davis is coming over vanderbilt's coming over
coaches are coming over oh my god look look look look look they're freaking out two point field
goal that's the replay center ruling not me not me don't yell at me right now what are you talking
about that's bullshit look at the fucking play look at the replay look at the fucking replay
replay oh vanderbilt can't believe it i think they're just looking at the part that's wrong
they'll roll it forward a little bit and you're all good takes the mouth guard throws it in says
all right game on they're only down one now it should have been a tied game with one second left
instead now they got a foul he's got to take his shots they're still upset about this
bullshit man this is uh-oh still alive lebron talking to official he says you want them to see
that trust me i've been there i know i don't know what that context is like you want them to see
what you're seeing oh bro what if he didn't call that wow then it'd be three then it'd be three
yep makes that one they're up by two not a lot of time ha ha ha ha it was two uh that was three
uh maybe one no two you're right okay uh 1.4 seconds left the play is to lebron he's on the
baseline he's up didn't get it
out of his hands in time didn't make it they lose call was big lebron was real upset about it
i don't know if it's good letting the players just see the screen like that anyway this one
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