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The NBA has cleared up the noise in the final game between the Toronto Raptors and the Boston Celtics series, when Kemba Walker tried to snatch the win from Celtic in the closing seconds.
Man of the match
The league admitted that umpires who worked on the game made a mistake without fouling the Celtics defender, who was attacked by several Raptors basketball players under the basket.
With a 98:98 draw, Walker had to stand on the penalty line and the time in the fourth quarter had to be readjusted to 2.2 seconds.
Instead, a contest ball was caught. After Pascal Siakam was lost on the other side of the field, the teams had to play an overtime. In the end, the Raptors triumphed only in the second extra 125: 122 and tied the series score with as many as four 3-3 wins.
“I don’t know,” Walker said when asked what happened in the decisive attack. “I just lost below the basket.”
The NBA also pointed to an error by the judges in the first overtime, when no action was taken for Norman Powell. The umpires then called the Raptors defender a foul and he stopped issuing fines.
The league also quenched passions for Nick Nurse’s behavior, which, according to the NBA, did not go beyond the limit of the rules. At the start of the last minute of the fourth quarter, the Raptors specialist left the training area and moved to the corner of the field.
Thus, the strategist possibly interrupted Jayson Tatum, who made the direct pass to Nurse and made a mistake at a critical moment.
However, the basketball player refrained from criticizing the Raptors helmsman.
“I was just wrong,” Tatum said. – It is my mistake. There’s no need to blame Nurse for not playing the court. “
The deciding match of the Raptors and Celtics will take place in the evening from Friday to Saturday at 4 pm Lithuanian time.
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