{"id":450155,"date":"2025-12-16T04:22:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/450155\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T04:22:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:22:28","slug":"refs-made-correct-calls-in-final-minute-of-suns-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/450155\/","title":{"rendered":"refs made correct calls in final minute of Suns-Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA\u2019s Last Two Minute Report assesses calls made late in games, and the league deemed the <a href=\"https:\/\/official.nba.com\/l2m\/L2MReport.html?gameId=0022501228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officials were correct<\/a> with every call and non-call decided in the final minute of Sunday\u2019s battle between the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Suns lost a chippy, <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/nba\/phoenix-suns\/suns-lakers-loss-2\/3605569\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">116-114 game<\/a> after a final minute included multiple reviews and calls that drew howling boos from the fans at Mortgage Matchup Center.<\/p>\n<p>Moments of contention included a non-call on LeBron James\u2019 contest of Dillon Brooks\u2019 go-ahead 3-pointer, the decision to give Brooks a technical foul that kicked him out of the game and the foul on Devin Booker that sent James to the free-throw line with three seconds left.<\/p>\n<p>The only decisions ruled incorrect on the L2M were an offensive foul non-call on Brooks with 1:38 left and an offensive foul non-call on Luka Doncic with 1:08 remaining. The non-call on Brooks came in transition, and Brooks ended up scoring on that possession to cut the Lakers\u2019 lead to 111-106.<\/p>\n<p>NBA defense key calls late in Suns-Lakers game<\/p>\n<p>On the decision not to call a foul on James despite him making contact with Brooks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>James (LAL) contests to the side of Brooks (PHX) and would avoid making contact if not for Brooks extending his left leg\/knee towards James.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On assessing Brooks a technical foul after he bumped James, who fell back to see the contact:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Brooks (PHX) is assessed a technical foul for unsportsmanlike physical contact with James (LAL) during a dead ball situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And on Booker\u2019s foul in the closing seconds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Replay review of the foul called on Booker (PHX) pursuant to a coach\u2019s challenge was deemed unsuccessful. Booker initiates contact with James\u2019 (LAL) right arm\/wrist as he is starting his upward shooting motion.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA\u2019s Last Two Minute Report assesses calls made late in games, and the league deemed the officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1846,1587,316,1589,1845,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-450155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-home","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115727339163119916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}