[Wojnarowski] ESPN Sources: The Knicks are filing a protest with the NBA to dispute the 105-103 loss to the Rockets on Monday. Both the NBA’s L2M report and crew chief Ed Malloy acknowledged foul call on Jalen Brunson leading to Aaron Holiday’s two winning free throws was incorrectly called.
ESPN Sources: The Knicks are filing a protest with the NBA to dispute the 105-103 loss to the Rockets on Monday. Both the NBA’s L2M report and crew chief Ed Malloy acknowledged foul call on Jalen Brunson leading to Aaron Holiday’s two winning free throws was incorrectly called. pic.twitter.com/SKHKV6SNGJ
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) February 13, 2024
by MarvelsGrantMan136
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Should be an easy dub for the knicks lol
Ed said they fucked up themselves
they should play a 5 minute game
What’s the point of these protests? Has anything ever come of one?
If there’s ever been a game where a call was so astronomically bad and you can easily replay the game starting with OT, it would be this one right?
did we ever get an update for the blazers one
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This feels like a protest that has legs to stand on given the officials immediately owned up to it, and it would just be OT added on
I think since the ref admitted it wasn’t a foul right after the game, this actually stands a chance at being a successful protest. We’ll see
No was they reverse it, Vegas would go mental
Ben Stiller made the call
So silly – only time this has ever worked was when the other team’s official scorer made an obvious factual error. This is either not going to be granted, or is going to be a massive scandal if it is.
[link](https://www.espn.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/4325/the-rarest-of-nba-treats-a-game-protest-is-granted)
If I was the Knicks I would rather take the L than try to cram another game into the calendar
They trying to send the black SUVs to Ed Malloy 😭
i saw a “breaking news” woj bomb with a brunson picture and my heart sank to the floor
Regardless of what team you support, you should hope the Knicks win. The Refs have been getting away with too many errors
They’re wasting their money. The league will only grant a protest if the refs misapplied the rules, not if they fucked up a subjective call like a foul.
> The high bar for successfully protesting the outcome of a game — and the resulting low success rate (13.6%, six of 44) — is by design, reflecting the NBA’s views on referee performance. ***It distinguishes between human error and judgment vs. misinterpretation of rules***, and tilts toward the integrity of its product in arenas.
https://www.nba.com/news/nba-protest-process-mavericks-await-news
NBA about to flip the “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong” trap card
We’re stopping the steal
It sucks that the Knicks lost this one coz of a ref fuckup but I seriously doubt the league is going to do anything about it
lol nothing will come of it
Ref cashed his parlay and now he wants to do his job smh
Lol it looked like a foul in real time, bad calls happen every game
So if you bet on the knicks and lost you still have a shot?
No chance anything happens, remember when the Rockets scored a basket and they didn’t even count it when we all saw it go into the basket in 4k
As other people are saying, protests generally are only won if a ref misapplies the rules. While this is true, Has there ever been a set of circumstances like this one? There was no time to make up for the mistake, and the lead official for the game AND the L2M said it was the incorrect call
What’s crazy to me is that this was clearly a foul. He hit him in the legs and in the arm and if Holiday’s arm hadn’t been there, he would have gone to his body. This standard of ‘able to return to normal playing position’ makes zero sense. They call touch fouls on the elbow all the time, they call a hand in the back that doesn’t visibly move the player, they call landing space fouls when the shooter doesn’t even land on the defender’s foot sometimes.
The game would be better if none of these things were called like they are, but they are. The only reason the refs said what they said is because they felt bad about ending the game on a foul.
Might be a dumb question. Let’s says the protest is successful and the knicks play the rockets at the designated schedule for ot in about 3 weeks. Are any injured players allowed to play in ot, even though they didn’t play in yesterday’s knicks vs rockets game?
If this doesn’t work just get rid of the protest
a huge smile just crept across my face
There needs to be a immediate investigation of all the refs in the league.
The corruption has gone too far.
How would this affect the bets on the game? (Asking this as a sad soul that bet on the Knicks)
Sports betting sites will absolutely put their boot on the NBA’s neck to stop it.
A bunch of sports books sweating having to figure out how they can keep their money from Knicks bets
The call literally ended the game where the Knicks had no chance to tie the game, if the NBA takes protesting seriously this would be a protest they accept.
Sadly the nba don’t give a fuck and the protest will go nowhere.
All three refs last night deserve a pink slip
the ref that made the call has to be pretty nervous, not the first time he does this shit he is probably betting on the side
Waste of money with that protest. The league is never going to agree with a protest against a bad call. That will open up a whole can of worm. LeBron vs Boston no call was just as egregious and nothing came of that.
The ref literally said that there was contact but since it was after the release of the ball and didn’t effect that shot it should have been incidental. All they have to say is the ref got the timing of the contact off, in slow motion replay it is clear, but judging it live a mistake is reasonable.
To be perfectly honest I don’t think it should or will be reversed. But the standard of referring was fucking terrible all game and there needs to be some accountability for the refs.
A lopsided FT count is not usually indication in itself but the rockets defence clearly wanted to play physical (which is a legitimate strategy) and to only give away 12 free throws all game was very telling
I love this
The league is gonna say ‘no lol’ but I still love it
We got clowned for this. Knicks are officially bozos I don’t make the rules
They should.that’s the most BS loss I ever saw
It’s putting the bad publicity on them moreso than actually winning with these things.
If the Knicks win this protest, would this overtime be televised? I’d love to just watch a random overtime o on a Tuesday at like 5:30
Think the Knick’s are wrong here. Can’t go around replaying games on ref mistakes, we don’t have enough time for that.
This will be the last time we ever hear a ref admitting to blowing a call.
Has an appeal ever done anything in the past? Genuinely curious, cause I can’t think of anything.
Glad to hear it. If the league wants to show some tiny amount of integrity, they will uphold the protest.