Referees admit to missing foul call late in Timberwolves' loss to Clippers
Welcome to the NBA's new age of officiating transparency.
The league announced last week that, effective immediately, it would begin revealing whether it determined contentious calls (or non-calls) were right or wrong, though that only applies to what the league deems "crunch time," loosely defined as the final two-odd minutes of close games.
Our first admission of guilt came for a missed call during the Minnesota Timberwolves' 110-105 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night.
In review, NBA says officials missed foul call on Andrew Wiggins with 1:20 left in Monday's #Twolves loss. Down four, he should had two FTs.
— Andy Greder (@twolvesnow) March 4, 2015
Here's the play in question, in which Wiggins appears to be fouled by Clippers center Spencer Hawes.
Ideally, we'd be getting information like this for entire games and not just the last two minutes. But that would be an awful lot of game film to sift through, and this appears to be a good start.
As more instances like this are revealed, it'll be interesting to see what, if any, patterns emerge.
- With h/t to PBT