Refs miss obvious Lebron James goaltend late in game

It must be nice being Lebron James. You’re a multi-millionaire, women throw themselves at you, and the refs, well they conveniently miss obvious calls when your team is in trouble.

With the Pistons down 3 points and 1:40 remaining, Will Bynum tipped the ball to himself and went in for what appeared to be an uncontested breakaway layup. But Lebron James swooped in at the last moment and took the ball almost from the cylinder as a referee looked on. One of the most egregious non-calls ever.

The Pistons and the coaching staff expressed their displeasure after the game

“Bad call. They know it was a bad call,” Pistons coach John Kuester said. “It’s a shame. That was a momentum-breaker. But, hey, that’s the NBA.”

Then there was a call where the officials gave James the continuation after he took three steps before completing a conventional three-point play. But you kind of have to expect that kind of stuff against arguably the top player in the league.

“Those are some tough calls,” Villanueva said. “Those were momentum-changing calls, I’ll say. I felt like we was getting in a roll of things. But the refs, they’re not perfect. They make mistakes and whatnot. We just have to live with it and deal with it.”

Thankfully, as the NBA has told us numerous times before, Tim Donaghy was a rogue referee and acted alone. Take that, Lee Harvey Oswald conspiracy nuts.

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