{"id":591102,"date":"2026-04-07T11:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:15:09","slug":"nba-admits-missing-key-calls-in-last-minutes-of-warriors-1-point-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/591102\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA admits missing key calls in last minutes of Warriors&#8217; 1-point loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials in Sunday\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/warriors\/article\/steph-curry-injury-return-22184119.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warriors<\/a>-Rockets game missed two calls that should have gone Golden State\u2019s way, the league announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA highlighted these blown calls in the <a href=\"https:\/\/official.nba.com\/l2m\/L2MReport.html?gameId=0022501142\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last two minute report<\/a> of the Dubs\u2019 117-116 loss to Houston. In both instances, officials did not call a foul when one occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The first missed call came with 1:28 left in the fourth quarter. Rockets forward Amen Thompson should have been called for a shooting foul against Warriors star Steph Curry, who returned to the court Sunday after a 27-game injury absence. This might not be too much of a surprise for longtime Warriors fans who have seen Curry get hacked at his whole career with comparatively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/warriors\/article\/nba-players-warriors-steph-curry-foul-calls-20288945.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">few free throws to show for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThompson (HOU) jumps from A to B and initiates body contact with Curry (GSW) as he defends the shot,\u201d the league wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Curry ultimately made the layup he was fouled on, but it should have been an and-one situation, tying the game up 112 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>The second missed call happened just 18 seconds later, as Houston center Alperen Sengun failed \u201cto fully clear the lane\u201d and was \u201cin the paint for longer than three seconds,\u201d the NBA\u2019s report said. That should have been a three-second violation and a turnover. Instead, the Rockets scored on that possession and went up 114-111.<\/p>\n<p>Golden State also benefited from a non-call. Draymond Green should have been whistled for a defensive three-second violation with 46 seconds left, giving the Rockets a free throw and possession. Instead, with a 115-114 lead, Houston missed its shot attempt and the Warriors got the rebound.<\/p>\n<p>However, if the previous calls had gone the right way, Houston would have entered that possession down 117-115, relying on that three-second violation to try to climb out of their deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the admitted errors, this report will not overturn the fact that the Warriors have now lost four straight games, and nearly locked in the 10th seed in the West with four games left in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials in Sunday\u2019s\u00a0Warriors-Rockets game missed two calls that should have gone Golden State\u2019s way, the league announced Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,288679,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-591102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sfgsports","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}