Officials admit error on final shot in Knicks' win over Pistons
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With the Knicks leading by one, Detroit's Tim Hardaway Jr. drew contact from Josh Hart as he went up for the potential winning shot with 0.3 seconds remaining.
Why is that not reviewable? Refs can initiate reviews. The game should not have ended without a review and it would not have ended as it did had there been a review. Hardaway Jr. should have shot three free throws, one make would have tied, two would have won. He's career 81.5% on free throws.
Why can't the remaining 0.3 seconds be replayed with Hardaway Jr. shooting the free throws?
*AP: J.B. Bickerstaff...had no mechanism to challenge the call. One, the Pistons had used their challenge earlier in the game and two, even if Bickerstaff still had the challenge it wouldn’t have mattered — technically, no call was made, so he couldn’t have challenged anyway.
Referees can initiate reviews, but apparently only of certain calls/no-calls. Google AI:
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In the NBA, referee-initiated instant replay reviews of out-of-bounds violations during the last two minutes of the fourth period and the last two minutes of any overtime were eliminated for the 2021-22 season on a one-year trial basis. The Coach's Challenge was extended to allow teams to trigger replay reviews of out-of-bounds violations throughout the entire game. No other calls or non-calls are subject to replay review unless it falls under the Coach's Challenge rules.
