The Houston Rockets have them Golden State Warriors thanks to a controversial referee decision from the NBA Cup thrown.
At 91:90 in the North American professional basketball league, the hosts turned the game around with a 7-0 run in the last three minutes and became the last team to reach the Final Four in Las Vegas. There they will meet in the semi-finals on Saturday Oklahoma City Thunder.
A situation that was considered a foul 3.5 seconds before the end, in which several players were lying on the floor fighting for the ball, caused excitement. The decision gave the Rockets two free throws and thus decided the game.
“I’ve never seen anything like that before”scolded Warriors-Coach Steve Kerr. “It’s a billion-dollar industry. People lose their jobs because of something like that.” He believes “Not even a referee in elementary school would have decided that way. We wanted to go to Vegas and win the Cup,” Kerr said.
Warriors end up not hitting the basket anymore
The Warriors had not lost to the Rockets since the outbreak of the corona pandemic and looked like the winner in this game too, despite being behind for a long time. In the final quarter, Stephen Curry’s stars turned the game around and led by seven points.
But then in the final minutes there were only three throw attempts, none of which found their way into the basket – and the situation when several players on the floor fought for the ball, which resulted in free throws for Houston.
Hawks in the semifinals against Bucks
In the other quarter-final they sat down Atlanta Hawks with 108:100 against them New York Knicks through. The Hawks get it in the gambling metropolis Milwaukee Bucks to do.