{"id":690004,"date":"2026-06-07T15:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690004\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:35:11","slug":"nba-admits-only-1-mistake-after-awful-officiating-in-game-2-of-knicks-spurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690004\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA admits only 1 mistake after awful officiating in Game 2 of Knicks-Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there was one thing just about everyone watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the New York Knicks<\/a> and San Antonio Spurs<\/a> could agree on, it was the horrid officiating.<\/p>\n

From the get-go it was very clear foul calls were slanted in the Spurs\u2019 direction. San Antonio<\/a> was getting away with things<\/a> NFL players would get flagged for.<\/p>\n

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The Knicks, meanwhile, were getting whistled for touching hair<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n

After the game, nobody was holding their breath for the NBA to actually take accountability for the pathetic showing from its officials.<\/p>\n

MORE: Caitlin Clark hoping Spurs avoid sweep vs. Knicks<\/a><\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a good thing we didn\u2019t because the only mistake the NBA admitted to was a technical foul against Knicks center Mitchell Robinson<\/a>, which has been officially rescinded.<\/p>\n

\u201cMitchell Robinson\u2019s (NYK) technical foul against Victor Wembanyama<\/a> (SAS) at 4:56 of the 2nd quarter in Game 2 of the NBA Finals on 6\/5\/26 has been rescinded upon league review,\u201d the NBA Official X account posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In case you don\u2019t remember that one, yes, it was a ridiculous call and everyone knew it the second the whistle was blown.<\/p>\n

Robinson did give Victor Wembanyama a shove on the play, but Wemby shoved him right back.<\/p>\n

There was nothing there that screamed technical foul, but if anything, both players should\u2019ve been given one.<\/p>\n

NBA gives officials perfect 2-minute grade\"\"<\/p>\n

The NBA put out its officials report<\/a> for the final two minutes of Game 2 between the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs and did not find any mistakes in that span.<\/p>\n

The only play in question, per the league, was a potential kick ball by Luke Kornet<\/a>, which was called out by former NBA player and ABC announcer Richard Jefferson<\/a> during the game.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlthough Kornet (SAS) lifts his foot, he does not intentionally kick the loose ball,\u201d the league stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yeah, we have a problem with that assessment.<\/p>\n

Kornet very clearly intentionally extends his leg to kick the ball away from OG Anunoby<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But we definitely shouldn\u2019t believe what our eyes tell us. Nothing to see here.<\/p>\n

Even though the NBA\u2019s two-minute report is bogus because of that, we appreciate there is at least an effort for accountability.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s do the other 46 minutes, shall we?<\/p>\n

A demoralizing loss for Spurs\"\"<\/p>\n

Despite it being five-on-eight when you include the three officials, and despite coming back from a double-digit deficit in the fourth quarter, the Spurs still couldn\u2019t beat the Knicks.<\/p>\n

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It doesn\u2019t get more demoralizing than that, and now San Antonio has to overcome two bad losses and what will be a raucous Madison Square Garden crowd to get back into the series.<\/p>\n

San Antonio is also battling history<\/a>, as no team has ever lost the first two games at home and come back to win an NBA Finals.<\/p>\n

Two have tried (the 1995 Orlando Magic<\/a> and 1993 Phoenix Suns<\/a>) and both have failed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If there was one thing just about everyone watching Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[58831,25161,355,5489,361,19560,11950,6415,95478,6999,2116,99,38139,60950,32090],"class_list":["post-690004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-luke-kornet","tag-mitchell-robinson","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-new-york-knicks","tag-og-anunoby","tag-orlando-magic","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-richard-jefferson","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sports","tag-technical-foul","tag-the-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}