The NBA is off on Saturday to arrange for the ultimate day of the common season on Sunday, however the Grizzlies’ scorekeeper might have clocked out a bit of early throughout the workforce’s Friday loss in opposition to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers obtained a closer-than-it-should-have-been, 123-120 victory over the stays of the Grizzlies in Memphis on Friday evening to offer themselves an opportunity to carry onto the eighth seed heading into the NBA play-in, but it surely seems that they may have needed to maintain onto their lead a bit of longer than was essential.
On Saturday morning, NBA Twitter consumer Ramiro Bentes observed that on account of a mistake made throughout a shot clock reset, the Lakers and Grizzlies by accident performed greater than a minute of additional recreation time… and apparently neither workforce observed:
Simply realized the Lakers and Grizzlies performed 13:06 minutes within the third quarter final evening. When the shot clock was presupposed to be reset at 1:14, the sport clock was additionally by accident reset to 2:20. Nobody observed and so they performed the remainder of the best way with the brand new recreation clock. pic.twitter.com/oeEE0F7f3C
— Ramiro Bentes (@NbaInRstats) April 13, 2024
After the video above went viral on Saturday, the NBA issued a press release, admitting the error and confirming that… apparently simply nobody in all the constructing observed whereas it was occurring?
Breaking: The NBA confirmed the Grizzlies and Lakers performed an additional 1:06 of recreation time throughout Friday’s recreation.
“The error was not observed in actual time by the groups, the referees, the sport clock operator or the stats crew,” an NBA spokesman mentioned.
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— Jonah Dylan (@TheJonahDylan) April 14, 2024
I’d make enjoyable of the Grizzlies for this extra, however given their harm woes — they have been lacking 13 gamers on Friday evening — it’s potential their regular timekeeper was suiting up for the workforce. I’d by no means heard of Jack White earlier than and he performed 14 minutes for Memphis, so perhaps conserving time is often his gig*?
It will even be simple to make enjoyable of the Lakers and Grizzlies’ teaching staffs right here too — particularly L.A.’s, given how pivotal this recreation was for them — however I will even totally admit I used to be watching this recreation, and likewise didn’t discover. Stuff occurs.
I imply, I’m making quite a bit lower than Darvin Ham, however I’m positive he was simply locked in on one of many many different particulars he’s proven such excellence on this seas—… oh wait.
Ah, nicely, nonetheless.
The funniest final result right here would have been that this really affected the results of a semi-pivotal recreation and compelled the Lakers to file a proper protest over a contest that they performed a lot of whereas… showing to be enjoying beneath protest.
However alas, as deserved as that will have been from the Basketball Gods on account of Los Angeles’ (apparently) organization-wide unseriousness this season, GG Jackson, Scotty Pippen Jr. and Co. can solely achieve this a lot, even with an additional minute or so during which to do it.
As a substitute, we’re left with this amusing future trivia reply, that includes LeBron profitable a recreation that featured 49 minutes of regulation time.
In truth, that simply may settle the GOAT debate: In any case, Jordan by no means did that, did he?
*this can be a joke, Jack White has performed in three video games for the Grizzlies and is (presumably) not additionally the workforce’s scorekeeper. I imply, I’m not POSITIVE, however I’m fairly positive.
