Philadelphia 76ers gamers and coaches are furious over a missed name on the ultimate play of Wednesday’s recreation towards the Los Angeles Clippers.
76ers guard Kelly Oubre Jr. drove to the basket and appeared to attract contact with lower than one second remaining. But no foul was known as, ensuing within the Clippers profitable the sport 108-107, though crew chief Kevin Scott later mentioned in a pool report that a foul ought to have been known as.
76ers head coach Nick Nurse stormed onto the court docket following the no-call and Oubre furiously approached the referees, yelling profanities at every in flip.
kelly oubre simply walked as much as each ref and mentioned “you a bitch, you a bitch, you a bitch” pic.twitter.com/rwq38tl1Bp
— michael doleac (@3MWD__) March 28, 2024
Oubre addressed his actions after the sport.
“First and foremost, heat of the moment,” Oubre mentioned. “This is an intense basketball recreation, after all. And we’re not excellent. The refs aren’t excellent. I wish to apologize for simply dropping my cool, as a result of that’s one thing I attempt to work on each day, and attempt to characterize God in the easiest way I probably can, and that wasn’t it. So I simply make an apology.
“But I saw Coach Nurse getting riled up and if our coach is going to fight for us and he’s going there, then I’m right behind him. But at the end of the day, it wasn’t cool. So I’ll take whatever penalties come with that and you have to move on, but I got to be better in a sense.”
Meanwhile, Nurse mentioned his group couldn’t blame the loss fully on the referees
“Well, at 104-101, we had the ball sideline, [and] Tyrese [Maxey] breaks into the backcourt wide open, slips and falls, and they get an and-1 out of that,” Nurse mentioned. “We come down and score, they’re full-court press and they knock one off of Kelly out of bounds.”
Nurse added that he didn’t agree with among the calls made late within the recreation.
“I think [Oubre] took it in there pretty hard,” Nurse mentioned. “I looked at it on our computers a couple times. I thought it was certainly contact, certainly as much of the last two or three that got called and-1s at the other end… I thought it was enough contact to call. [But] that’s the way it goes sometimes.”
The eighth-seeded 76ers are now13-26 with out Joel Embiid within the lineup this season, whereas the fourth-seeded Clippers are 3-7 over their previous 10 video games.
READ MORE: Kelly Oubre Jr.’s Car Accident Investigation Takes Bizarre Turn
