The New Orleans Pelicans were on the short end of a missed foul call by the officials that made the difference in Monday night's game against Utah.
It all played out in the final seconds as the Jazz held a 128-126 lead. Pelicans small forward Brandon Ingram drove to the basket for the layup, with Jazz center Rudy Gobert moving in to block the shot. The video clearly shows Gobert making contact with Ingram's arm, resulting in a missed shot, but amazingly no foul was called.
Straight garbage at the end of the Pelicans/Jazz game. Down 2 Brandon Ingram takes it to the rack and CLEARLY gets hit on the arm by Gobert! They review it and determine it was a “clean block”.— Doug McKain (@DMAC_LA) January 7, 2020
Has a city ever been screwed by the refs as much as New Orleans? #nba #pels pic.twitter.com/0FrESgIizl
Making matters worse, the officials reviewed the final seconds via replay, but only to verify that there was no clock malfunction:
NBA Referee Kane Fitzgerald Comments to Pool Reporter after Jazz-Pelicans game pic.twitter.com/vOYkS8Wipn— NBA Official (@NBAOfficial) January 7, 2020
How can the officials miss this call? It's not even close. Absolutely horrible. Someone needs to be held accountable for this.
Ingram was the leading scorer for the Pelicans with 35 points, but that's hardly any consolation after getting screwed by the officials.
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