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NBA admits refs missed 7 calls in end of Mavericks-Lakers, but not the 1 that enraged LeBron James
The Dallas Mavericks notched one of their most dramatic wins of the season on Thursday with a double-overtime victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, but not without some controversy along the way.
That controversy wasn’t softened when the NBA released its Last Two Minute Report a day later.
Neither team was thrilled with the game’s officiating, but the Lakers were especially incensed when their comeback came just short of ending the game in regulation. The biggest point of contention was a would-be game-winner by Lakers wing Troy Brown Jr., which was blocked by the Mavericks’ Tim Hardaway Jr. to send the game to overtime.
LeBron James was especially furious. Per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin, Brown offered a diplomatic answer to reporters in the Lakers locker room after the game, but when a reporter followed up with referee Joshua Tiven’s explanation — specifically that Hardaway only made “high five contact,” which is legal — James chimed in from 20 feet away:
“No, it’s a f***ing foul,” James said strongly for everyone in the room to hear. “It’s a foul. No matter what [Brown] says, it’s a f***ing foul. That s*** is blatant, and they should have called it.”
Not the words from a man happy about losing a game 119-115 and falling to 19-23 on the season. It would have been a gut punch of a game even with perfect officiating, as Luke Doncic hit final-minute 3-pointers to force both the first and second overtime.
The NBA confirmed the officiating was off a day later, just not how James and the Lakers might have hoped. The Last Two Minute Report identified a whopping seven calls and no-calls missed by the officials in the final two minutes of regulation and both overtime periods, but affirmed the no-call on Hardaway was correct.
The NBA’s explanation backed Tiven’s comments after the game:
Hardaway Jr. (DAL) legally contests Brown Jr.’s (LAL) jump shot attempt and makes contact with the ball. Any “high-five” contact is considered incidental.
If the Lakers wanted something to feel angrier about, the league admitted the officials missed two calls on the same possession at the end of the first overtime. With less than 15 seconds remaining, James drove to the basket while being guarded by Doncic, but was blocked by a helping Christian Wood. A scramble for the ball resulted in Doncic recovering it to force double overtime.
In the L2M Report, the NBA noted Wood “initiates contact to James’ left arm before blocking the shot,” while Doncic initiated contact with Wenyen Gabriel, which “affects his ability control the rebounds.” Basically, two fouls were missed on one shot.
Of course, the Lakers benefited from some officiating misadventures too. All five of the other missed calls in the Report benefited Los Angeles, with Mavericks owner Mark Cuban calling the performance the “worst officiated game” on Twitter.
Refs weren’t seeking Buccaneers WR Mike Evans’ autograph
A postgame interaction between two game officials and Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Mike Evans did not involve a request for an autograph, the NFL said in a statement Tuesday.
Following the Buccaneers’ 21-3 loss Sunday to the Carolina Panthers, 1340 AM Fox Sports captured video of side judge Jeff Lamberth and line judge Tripp Sutter calling Evans’ name. Evans then wrote something on a card they handed him.
The collective bargaining agreement between the NFL and the NFL Referees Association prohibits game officials from approaching players and coaches for autographs, citing the appearance of partiality. Officials can seek autographs and memorabilia for charitable purposes, but those requests must go through the league’s officiating department.
Following conversations with the individuals involved, however, the league determined that Lamberth and Sutter weren’t asking for an autograph. The league did not specify why they called out to Evans nor what was said during the interaction. In response to a follow-up question, an NFL spokesman said the league had no other details to share.
A request for comment from the NFLRA was not immediately returned.
The NFL statement made no mention of discipline for either official, but the league did add: “Both Lamberth and Sutter have been reminded of the importance of avoiding even the appearance of impropriety when interacting with players, coaches, and club staff on gameday — including during the pregame and postgame time periods.”
Lamberth is in his 21st NFL season, and Sutter is in his fourth.
Microsoft fixes Patch Tuesday bugs that broke Windows VPN, ReFS, and DC
Microsoft released an out-of-band (OOB) update yesterday to fix some Windows issues caused by last week’s monthly patching cycle on Patch Tuesday.
The January 2022 updates that shipped last week included security patches and a fix for Japanese text appearance issues in Windows 11 (KB5009566) and Windows 10 (KB5009543) — along with a secret payload of issues, including unexpected restarting of Domain Controllers and VPN connections using L2TP failing.
One of the major issues that came up during the week for IT admins included finding that Windows Server 2012 became stuck in a boot loop, while other versions suffered broken Windows VPN clients, and some hard drives appeared as RAW format (and unusable). Many IT Admins were forced to roll back the updates — leaving many servers vulnerable with none of last week’s security patches.
The process is leaving some IT Admins frustrated and sharing grievances on Reddit. They found that the OOB update (an update separate from the usual timing that is downloaded and distributed manually by staff) would force them to first run last week’s buggy patches — risking some Domain Controllers to continuously reboot, loss of access to external drives formatted as ReFS (Resilient File System), and broken VPN connectivity.
An out-of-band update has been released to address issues related to VPN connectivity, Windows Server Domain Controllers restarting, Virtual Machine start failures, and ReFS-formatted removeable media failing. https://t.co/mx9Le4ZXcV
— Windows Update (@WindowsUpdate) January 17, 2022
The Verge spoke with an IT Admin for a university, who was able to confirm they, too, had to roll back last Tuesday’s update because external ReFS drives had become incompatible — with no warning from Microsoft. Microsoft’s documents state that ReFS should only be used on fixed drives, so this department (and other IT admins on Reddit) had to migrate data before running the updates again.
Should the ReFS issue have not been addressed any sooner by Microsoft, they might have believed the drives were faulty, then tried reformatting to NTFS and losing the data (that might be a good idea anyway, as other posts Reddit shared accounts of ReFS failing on them regardless of this update).
This OOB update is available to IT admins with access to Microsoft’s update catalog and can be loaded into Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) — but does not, as of yet, appear in the WSUS catalog, leaving Admins forced to manually download and load it.
An individual by the name of syshum on the sysadmin subreddit jokes: “To Microsoft the question is Why are you still using DomainControllers. You should be using Azure AD only.” There are reasons why many might believe there’s an uneven allocation of resources — subscription cloud services like Azure contribute more to the company’s constant revenue flow than a long-term supported Active Directory solution on-premises.
Thankfully, support for on-premise solutions isn’t gone yet. Cliff Fisher, Microsoft’s product manager for Active Directory, addressed the problems of patching the older Server 2012 R2, which erroneously reboots too fast to take the whole cumulative patch:
A quick thread on patching with Windows Updates on downlevel platforms like 2012R2.
There are two types of updates on OSes on the older servicing stack – a Monthly Rollup (MR) and a Security-Only (SO).
— Cliff Fisher (@brdpoker) January 18, 2022
Some of these fixes are available now for Windows 11 and Windows 10 as an optional update if you go to Windows Update on your computer. As of writing, there is still no fix for Windows Server 2019.
Seahawks get hosed as refs let Rams once again get away with crucial pass interference
The referees decided the outcome of the game in favor of the Rams on Tuesday. I don’t like to say this, as I think it’s often an excuse used by fans whose team lost fairly, but it’s appropriate given how unfairly the Seahawks lost Tuesday night.
Shawn Hochuli’s crew, which already came in as the most flag-happy group in the NFL, made completely indefensible calls all night, nearly all of which broke in favor of the Rams. There were two calls in particular, though, that had Seahawks fans and Fox’s officiating expert/rules analyst Dean Blandino shaking their heads.
These calls came in the 4th quarter, and both had a drastic influence on the outcome. The first of these calls was a holding against Bless Austin which Dean Blandino disagreed with. Austin made contact with Cooper Kupp within five yards of the line of scrimmage and at no point grabbed hold of his jersey. Instead of a 4th down and certain punt, the Rams were gifted a first down, at which point they marched right down the field and scored a touchdown.
Game-changing defensive holding call on Seattle that negates a stop on 3rd & 12 and leads to a Rams touchdown.
I don’t know about this one pic.twitter.com/b2C2rSdD1l
— Computer Cowboy (@benbbaldwin) December 22, 2021
This reminded me a lot of the garbage unnecessary roughness that got called on KJ Wright last year in Arizona. Same situation, opponent backed up deep in their own territory. Fourth down is seemingly forced until a flag comes down for no apparent reason. Both penalties also resulted in dominating momentum-changing touchdown drives against a defeated defense. Maybe the Seahawks didn’t respond to the situation as well as they should have, but that doesn’t matter. They shouldn’t have been in that situation anyways.
Lots of the time, criticism of the officials is a bit overboard. But in this case, it is absolutely warranted. If officials decide the game on an iffy call where both teams were given the chance to win, fine. That happens. But the Seahawks were blocked at every turn by an officiating crew that seemed hell-bent on stifling any shot the Seahawks were to have in the second half.
Secondly, I’ll touch on a call that is still to fresh in my memory to discuss properly, but which I’m sure you all saw live and is displayed prominently at the top of this article. Genuinely have no words for that. Just feel bad for New Orleans Saints fans who watched that play. Flashbacks.
Now here’s the pass interference that wasn’t called that ended up getting DeeJay Dallas flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Of course, the math with all of this stuff is shaky; if the plays are called right, 10 points are taken off of the board for LA, but that just means there would have been new and different plays that would decide the outcome, not necessarily that the score would be 10-10. However, players deserve the chance to determine that outcome, regardless of win or lose. And the Seahawks were certainly denied that chance Tuesday night.
NBA to players, coaches, refs: Booster shots are recommended
MIAMI (AP) — The NBA told its players, coaches and referees on Sunday that they should receive booster shots against the coronavirus, with particular urgency for those who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
The league and the National Basketball Players Association — working jointly based on guidance from the NBA’s public health and infectious disease experts — said those who received Johnson & Johnson shots more than two months ago should get a booster. The booster recommendation also was made for those who received the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine at least six months ago.
The league recommendations, which were obtained by The Associated Press, called for those who got Johnson & Johnson vaccines originally to seek a Pfizer or Moderna booster. Those who got Pfizer or Moderna may simply get whatever booster is available, the league said.
Data used to make the league’s determinations showed that antibody levels for Pfizer and Moderna recipients wane after six months, and after two months for Johnson & Johnson recipients.
Some teams already have been planning for players to receive booster shots when available. A small number of previously vaccinated NBA players have tested positive this season for COVID-19 and entered the league’s health and safety protocols.
Among those sidelined of late: Philadelphia’s Tobias Harris, who had symptoms, 76ers coach Doc Rivers said.
“He’s doing OK but not great, honestly. … It hit him for sure,” Rivers said last week. “A lot of guys have had this and they are mad, like ‘What the hell, I’m fine.’ Tobias is not in that category right now, I can tell you that.”
In some cases, those who are vaccinated but elect to not receive a booster would be subjected to game-day testing again starting Dec. 1, the NBA said. That Dec. 1 date varies depending on when the person was originally vaccinated and what type of vaccine they received.
About 97% of NBA players were believed to be vaccinated when the season started last month. In the U.S., nearly 60% of the population — more than 193 million people — are fully vaccinated. More than 21 million have received a booster dose, and those numbers are soaring each day.
‘Twilight zone’ – Cardinals’ Kliff Kingsbury cries foul after ref’s errant flag hits punted football in air
TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury had never seen an official’s flag hit a punt in midair until Sunday in Jacksonville. Had the play turned out differently, however, Kingsbury would’ve wanted that official to be immediately reprimanded.
The play in question took place early in the first quarter of Arizona’s 31-19 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jacksonville punter Logan Cooke launched a 51-yard punt with 13:38 left in the first. As the ball descended to Cardinals returner Rondale Moore, field judge Dyrol Prioleau threw a flag for a penalty during the play. However, the flag hit the ball in midair and redirected it away from Moore, who muffed it. Arizona recovered it to retain possession, but if the Jaguars had recovered, Kingsbury would’ve called for Prioleau to be replaced.
“It seems quite unfair that we would lose the ball if that ref happens to hit it,” Kingsbury said. “I think the ref should probably be ejected at that point.”
Kingsbury didn’t know the ball was redirected by the flag during the game, and Moore, a rookie, didn’t mention anything to his head coach, either.
“He’s hard on himself and I don’t know if he even knew what had happened,” Kingsbury said. “But, it looked kind of like a Twilight Zone. Like, he had it and then all of a sudden he didn’t have it.
“And, so, I didn’t know that had occurred, but you would think that maybe we can adjust that rule.”
Kingsbury was asked if he’s going to bring the play up to the league.
“Considering it’s probably the first time it’s ever happened in the history of the league, I don’t know if they’ll really put it up at the owners meeting rules proposals,” he said. “But I would be all for it.”
Kentucky Basketball: BJ Boston thinks refs gave Arkansas Razorbacks the game
Kentucky has had a terrible season. One of the worst in literally 100 years.
But luck hasn’t quite been on their side either.
The Cats have had the lead in the second in so many of their 13 losses. For whatever reason, often time the ball hasn’t bounced their way, resulting in a historically bad season.
Another area of misfortune has been the whistle. Or lack there of in UK’s heartbreaking 81-80 loss to the Razorbacks on Tuesday night.
With Kentucky trailing by three with just under two minutes to go in the game, Arkansas freshman forward Jaylin Williams drove to the paint on Devin Askew. Instead of calling a what appeared to be a travel, the referee instead rewarded Williams with a trip to the line.
Was he fouled? Maybe but you can see yourself that steps were taken far before any contact was made. Calipari was livid that walking wasn’t called.
ESPN commentator Jimmy Dykes wasn’t a fan of the blown call and even mentioned that Williams may have taken four steps.
It goes without saying that one call could have changed the outcome of the game considering it was a one-point loss.
Making matters even worse was the ‘foul’ called on Jacob Toppin after Kentucky had taken an 80-79 lead in the final seconds. It appeared he got all ball, but the foul was called as Jalen Tate hit two free throws to win the game.
BJ Boston probably said it best about the call.
BJ Boston on the foul on Toppin: “I honestly don’t think it was a foul. I think the refs gave them that game.”
— Tyler Thompson (@MrsTylerKSR) February 10, 2021
Once again if a minor thing here or two goes UK’s way maybe they have a considerably better overall record.
Instead – Kentucky is now stained with an abysmal 5-13 record, leaving the Big Blue Nation a frustrated as ever. The loss on Saturday to Tennessee was especially disheartening because of how well the guys executed for 30 minutes.
Then tonight, it appeared UK had enough in the tank to steal a win in Rupp Arena, but once again, it just didn’t come to fruition.
Regardless of questionable calls, this team has not been able to take advantage of any opportunities late in games.
It felt like tonight would be the night that Calipari’s squad finally finished one out.
Maybe next time?
LeBron James heckled by fans during Lakers game, refs briefly stop play
There were a limited number of fans in Atlanta, Ga., Monday night due to the coronavirus pandemic, but that didn’t appear to stop Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James from getting in a heated argument with some along the sidelines.
Hecklers appeared to jaw with James during the fourth quarter of the contest between the Lakers and the Atlanta Hawks, which led to referees stopping play and security getting involved, according to a video of the incident posted on Twitter.
The fans in question were allegedly two women who were escorted from State Farm Arena. One of them gave the middle finger on her way out, according to The Athletic’s Chris Kirschner.
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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) is restrained by an official as he reacts to a fan in the second half of an NBA basketball game against the Atlanta Hawks, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
James appeared to shake off the incident, scoring 21 points, as the Lakers defeated the Hawks 107-99.
“At the end of the day, I’m happy fans are back in the building,” James said after the game. “I miss that interaction … We as players need that interaction.”
Last week, a Cleveland Cavaliers executive celebrated a missed shot from James at the end of the 3rd quarter during a game between the Lakers and Cavs. James would explode in the 4th quarter leading his team to a 115-108 victory in the contest.
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He remarked after the game that the unidentified person in question last week “got a little bit too excited.”
Refs admitted Draymond Green’s ejection was ‘mistake,’ Steve Kerr says
Draymond Green shouldn’t have been ejected late in the first half of the Warriors’ game against the New York Knicks on Thursday night at Chase Center.
Following the Warriors’ 119-104 loss, coach Steve Kerr revealed what the referees told him at halftime, shortly after they tossed Green.
“At halftime, Ben Taylor came out and told me that it was a mistake, that John Butler didn’t realize Draymond was yelling at his teammate,” Kerr told reporters on a video call after the game. “He thought he was yelling at him.”
Green was ejected with just over a minute remaining in the first half. Following a turnover on an attempted entry pass to James Wiseman, Green yelled at the rookie center as the Warriors got back on defense. He was loud enough that the screaming to be heard through the NBC Sports Bay Area broadcast.
Butler clearly thought Green was yelling at him and assessed him a second technical foul, resulting in his automatic ejection.
The Warriors weren’t playing particularly well and trailed the Knicks 63-57 at halftime, but losing Green for the second half effectively ended any chance they had of winning the game. He makes that big of a difference for the team.
“Obviously, Draymond is one of our best and most impactful players, so it hurt us, but we were playing very poorly to that point anyway,” Kerr told reporters. “I’m not going to talk about the officiating, I’m going to talk about our poor play. We just foul constantly. We’re dead last in the league in fouls, I think, in free throw attempts allowed. And you can’t win games when you foul, foul, foul. You’re constantly having to bring the ball up out of the net after a team is shooting free throws.
“You can’t build any rhythm at all. We had four fouls in the first 55 seconds of the fourth quarter, so we are who we are and I obviously have to do a better job. We’re undisciplined and we’ve got to find a way to defend without fouling.”
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Andrew Wiggins, who finished with 17 points and nine rebounds in the loss, said the Warriors missed their vocal leader.
“It makes a big difference,” Wiggins told reporters. “Draymond is a huge part of this team on both sides of the floor. His presence, even on the bench is huge. We missed him, obviously, tonight.”
The league, once it reviews the film of the game, likely will rescind the second technical assessed to Green. But that doesn’t lessen the sting of him missing the second half Thursday night.