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DALLAS \u2014 It goes without saying that you don\u2019t foul out the best player on a weak call down the stretch of a must-win NBA Finals game.<\/p>\n
You don\u2019t snatch away the drama of the final series because of a foul that required minutes of deliberation to uphold after a challenge.<\/p>\n
But that\u2019s what the referees did Wednesday night with Luka Doncic, who was whistled for a block on Jaylen Brown for his sixth foul. Doncic then watched the final four minutes from the locker room, as Dallas\u2019 comeback fell short in Wednesday\u2019s 106-99 Game 3 to give Boston a 3-0 series advantage.<\/p>\n
Doncic, who was called for four fouls in the fourth quarter, was playing lazy defense, per usual. That part was on him. He doesn\u2019t move his feet. Brown drove at Doncic and the Mavs forward was halfway between taking a charge and trying to get out of the way. But Brown also pushed off Doncic and the right call was a no call.<\/p>\n
Especially under those circumstances. Jason Kidd challenged the foul and the Dallas arena groaned when it was deemed unsuccessful. The Mavericks, who turned a 21-point deficit in the fourth quarter into a 1-point deficit, were outscored in the final three minutes, 13-7.<\/p>\n
Game over. Series over.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe couldn\u2019t play physical. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t want to say nothing,\u201d Doncic said. \u201cYou know, six fouls in the NBA Finals, basically I\u2019m like this (motions with palms out). C\u2019mon, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mavs coach Jason Kidd took the high road.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey called a foul. I was stuck. I had to challenge it, so \u2026 had to challenge because it was a close call,\u201d he said. \u201cBut the referee called it a foul. Got to move on, move forward.\u201d <\/p>\n
Somewhere from his seat inside American Airlines Center, Adam Silver was probably cringing. His league benefits from a competitive series. It\u2019s good for business. The more games, the more viewership on TV, the more tickets sold, the bigger the revenue. <\/p>\n
But now the drama is virtually gone.<\/p>\n
And as New Yorkers, we can only say, \u201cNot Boston again.\u201d<\/p>\n
The city with banners galore and their silly Lucky The Leprechaun is on the brink of adding another to their collection. As you probably know, no NBA team has ever recovered from such a deficit. The Mavericks will be the 157th team to try after the previous 156 failed.<\/p>\n
So with a little assistance from the referees, the odds are overwhelmingly giving the Celtics their 18th championship, breaking the tie with the Lakers for the NBA record. Boston also would get its sixth title in either the NBA, MLB and NFL since 2013. In the same span, NYC \u2014 which has double the number of Boston\u2019s teams \u2014 has zero championships.<\/p>\n
Clearly, we\u2019re doing something wrong.<\/p>\n
And the wrong starts with the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
Way back in 2013, Billy King traded too many draft picks to the Celtics. Two of them became Jayson Tatum and Brown, the duo that combined for 61 points Wednesday. Agewise, they\u2019re only in their mid-20s and have the Celtics\u2019 playoff record this year at 15-2.<\/p>\n
Still, their biggest problem in recent years is folding in crunch time. And it almost happened again Wednesday, when the Celtics managed just two points over nearly five minutes of the fourth quarter and saw their should-be insurmountable lead dwindle.<\/p>\n
And maybe it would\u2019ve dissolved fully if Doncic was in the game. Maybe it wouldn\u2019t. We\u2019ll never know, and that\u2019s the shame of the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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