Tyrese Maxey fouled twice during chaotic sequence, L2MR says

In its Last Two Minute Report for the New York Knicks‘ miraculous 104-101 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 2 of their first-round playoff collection Monday night time, the NBA dominated that Tyrese Maxey was fouled a number of instances during a frenetic defining sequence, and that 76ers coach Nick Nurse referred to as for a timeout however the referees did not see it.

The league stated Jalen Brunson grabbed Maxey’s jersey earlier than the ball was inbounded after Brunson’s 3-pointer lower Philadelphia’s result in two, and that Josh Hart then bumped Maxey as he caught the inbounds move, sending him falling to the bottom.

Maxey then dedicated a turnover attempting to move the ball after he fell to the bottom, which led to Donte DiVincenzo lacking a possible go-ahead 3-pointer after which making one which proved to be the profitable shot with 13 seconds remaining.

“[Maxey] did his job,” Joel Embiid stated after the sport, when requested whether or not he wanted to say something to his star guard following the turnover and a blocked potential go-ahead layup within the closing seconds. “That’s on the league. That’s on the NBA. That’s on the frigging referees. I hate to put the game on them. But I am sure the two-minute report is going to come out and we are going to see what happened.

“But like I stated, that is unacceptable. That’s not on him. That’s not on any of us. We fought for 47 minutes and no matter 20 seconds. For that to occur … that is not OK.”

Maxey, when asked about the league’s report on Tuesday night, opted to focus on how he could’ve done better on the play.

“I’ve bought to be stronger with the ball,” Maxey told TNT after being named the NBA’s Most Improved Player. “When I get on the ground, I’ve bought to name timeout. But it’s what it’s. It occurred. You must let it go. If you dwell on it, a pair days from now we’ll be down 0-3. We do not need to be down 0-3. We nonetheless had possibilities to win the sport. … We cannot go away video games in different individuals’s palms. We must take it.”

The report also said that as Sixers point guard Kyle Lowry was inbounding the ball, Nurse was calling for a timeout but the officials didn’t grant it — as Nurse himself said to open his news conference after Monday’s game.

Though the report did say Nurse tried to call a timeout a second time, that one shouldn’t have been granted because Maxey didn’t have control of the ball at that point.

“Well, the very first thing is clearly they rating,” Nurse said. “We check out getting it in fast. We do not get it in fast. I name timeout. Referee seemed proper at me. Ignored me. Went in to Tyrese, I referred to as timeout once more. Then the melee began.

“I guess I got to run out onto the floor or do something to make sure and get his attention, but I needed a timeout there to advance it. Would’ve been good.

“But, could not get it.”

In addition to those calls, the Last Two Minute Report said two other calls were missed: an Embiid foul on DiVincenzo in the moments before Brunson’s 3-pointer and a defensive three seconds violation by Knicks forward OG Anunoby with just over a minute remaining.

None of that changes the ultimate result, however, as New York has taken a 2-0 lead in its best-of-seven series with Philadelphia behind the remarkable comeback, which saw the Knicks become the first team since 1996 to come back from down five within the final 30 seconds of a playoff game and win in regulation, per SportRadar.

And while the NBA admitted the calls were missed, the 76ers will not be able to get the end of the game replayed. The Knicks tried a similar maneuver earlier this season when referee Jacyn Goble made an incorrect call on Brunson fouling Houston Rockets guard Aaron Holiday at the end of a game in Houston, only for New York’s protest to get denied because it could not demonstrate that there was a misapplication of the playing rules, rather than human error.

The last successful protest was in 2008, when the Miami Heat gained a protest of a loss to the Atlanta Hawks after Shaquille O’Neal fouled out of a recreation however had dedicated solely 5 private fouls, inflicting the ultimate 51.9 seconds to be replayed at a later date.

Games 3 and 4 will likely be Thursday night time and Sunday afternoon in Philadelphia.