- Lakers lost Game 2 to the Nuggets 101-99 on Monday night
- Replay officials overturned a foul call on Michael Porter Jr
LeBron James was seething after the Los Angeles Lakers watched a golden opportunity slip away.
His frustration wasn’t so much centered on blowing a 20-point lead. Or his late missed three-pointer that rimmed out with the game tied. Or Jamal Murray’s fadeaway buzzer-beater that gave the Denver Nuggets a 101-99 win over the Lakers in Game 2 of their first-round series on Monday night.
James instead took aim at the NBA’s replay center in Secaucus, New Jersey, after a second-half foul on Michael Porter Jr was overturned. A foul was initially called after Porter struck D’Angelo Russell in the face, but the call was reversed with the league saying Porter made only marginal contact on Russell.
“I don’t understand what’s going on in the replay center, to be honest,” said James, whose team heads back to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Thursday facing a 2-0 deficit. “D-Lo clearly gets hit in the face on the drive. What the fuck do we have a replay center for … It doesn’t make sense. It makes no sense. It bothers me.”
