[Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: Portland is filling a protest with the league office to challenge result of 111-109 loss to Oklahoma City on Tuesday. With 109-108 lead, Portland contends Chauncey Billups was clearly calling timeout prior to official whistling a Blazers double-dribble with 15.6 seconds l
ESPN Sources: Portland is filling a protest with the league office to challenge result of 111-109 loss to Oklahoma City on Tuesday. With 109-108 lead, Portland contends Chauncey Billups was clearly calling timeout prior to official whistling a Blazers double-dribble with 15.6…
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) January 24, 2024
by MarvelsGrantMan136
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They’ll take any wins they can get 😭
Where’s the replay
unlucky for them cause refs don’t admit their mistakes and the league backs them
What a day
Not sure what the league could even do about it but fuck yeah for calling it out so more people know because it was such bullshit
As they fucking should. Absolutely disgraceful.
This will be nothing, but everyone knows it was horseshit. Refs are on one this season.
What could the league office even do?
Yup OP is 100% a bot lmao
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Based. League needs to take the officiating problem seriously. Hopefully this is blatant enough for them to actually do something about it (replay the final seconds next time OKC/POR play; they did this with the Heat in the 2000s I think)
Wonder how long the league can act like they don’t have an officiating problem.
Probably for a long while..
when the Rockets weren’t able to successfully protest a made shot not counted, i think it was clear that theres nothing that a protest can actually achieve.
Send that ref to China
The “clear” timeout call was made a split second before he double dribbled, behind the referee. Referees are not robots and this mistake was nowhere near egregious.
Every time this happens it shows why the league needs to implement a different system for calling timeouts. No reason you should still have to get the officials attention in the modern day, give them like a watch with a button they click or something.
Doesn’t this cost like $500k? Mavs did it last season.
Why is there no timeout button for the teams to use ?
does the NBA think that people want to watch WWE with the refs instead of just good basketball? it’s insane how horrible refs have been this year and it feels so purposeful at times
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What the hell does “protest” even entail…like a few weeks ago the Lions lost a game with significant playoff seeding implications (although in a BDL twist it ended up not mattering) because the ref literally misread the number on a guy’s jersey, or otherwise had a clearly mistaken identity situation happening. They’re not gonna reverse results lol
League is obviously rigged
They fucking should. that was a horseshit ending to the game. Fuck that ref hope he gets fired. My team just won and I’m still mad about this
Portland will get an AI-generated apology letter. They can’t expect much more.
fair, it wont be overturned but the refs should be called out
“We investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing “..🙃
If this comes out that refs did bullshit which they did then they need to be held responsible theyre being way to soft on these zebra mfs
Want a rematch portland?
Chauncey’s last-ditch effort to prove he gives a shit? Too little too late, bozo. Kick rocks
It looks like Chauncey doesn’t really start to call timeout until right before the whistle and when the ref is looking away from him.
Its so hard for me to watch the NBA, because its so hard for me to get into a game I know 100% is not an actual fair competition. There’s so many examples of blatant ref ball. Even going back decades, with the betting scandal, dude was apparently able to correctly pick almost ever game just by knowing which way the refs were likely to be biased for or against certain players or teams. That’s not even a sport, its just people jumping around for no reason. Might as well not even keep score.
NBA definitely gonna have another crooked refs and/or higher ups scandal in the near future
Watching OKC celebrate was hilarious. They are going to get waxed in the first round.
They should that was a disgrace.
Not surprised we put in a protest. I don’t think anything will really come of it, but it’s important for a ref fuck up this glaring to get called out formally.
I don’t know what will come from this but it has to be done, the officiating is reaching a critical point. We can’t ignore how much it has deteriorated and is impacting the NBA product
“While the time out calls were missed by the league official, this did not force the player to restart their dribble. Consequently, the double dribble call was correct given the circumstances, and the end of the game was not altered. The call, resulting technical fouls, and game result will stand.” – my assumed result of a league investigation into the protest
Refs just taking the piss now , basically calling whatever the fuck they want
Tbh I don’t even understand this from a Blazers standpoint. To save pride sure but we’ve seen way worse egregious calls on higher profile players. Also why would they want a +1 win to their record in a tank year lmfao
WALK OUT. Unless entire teams start walking out after such ridiculous calls the refs and NBA wouldn’t. Why even play if Refs decide who wins. Like literally – calling random fouls, not calling fouls, even reviews going wrong, give techs for no reason – it’s become a joke at this point.
Yesterday’s Wolves-Hornets debacle coupled with tonight’s disaster could legitimately swing the NBA playoffs. You can’t be fucking up that bad.
I’m glad more people are calling out how horrible the reffing has been. Refs make mistakes every year but it just seems to get worse.
What’s the point? It’s not like the Blazers are fighting for a playoff spot.
The easy answer to all of this is to finally update the refereeing and have a fourth referee on the floor instead of the outmoded lead, center, trail refereeing system.
There should be a referee on each side of the floor, one on each corner.
There’s no excuse to miss a timeout in that spot.
But had Brogdon even reported as eligible?
This was one of the most egregious officiating mistakes I’ve ever seen and they kept piling one bad call on top of another.
Fuck okc and their disgusting preferential treatment