Warriors two-point defeat, which the Mavericks will dispute, with the premise that Golden State was given a free shot.

March 23, 2023
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The Dallas Mavericks have filed a formal protest with the NBA, claiming that the Golden State Warriors effectively received a free shot because of a mistake by the referees. The Mavs lost, 127-125.

The Mavericks believed they possessed the ball after a timeout in the third quarter, so the five players on the field moved to one side of the court. The ball, however, belonged to Golden State.

The referee handed the ball to the Warriors’ Jordan Poole, who inbounded below his own hoop with no Mavericks surrounding them as the two teams were on different sides of the floor.

The owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, has alleged that the referees made a mistake in a recent game against the Golden State Warriors. Cuban claims that the referees changed their initial ruling without informing his team, which led to an easy basket for the Warriors. Cuban took to Twitter to explain the situation, stating that the referee had called the ball in favor of the Mavericks, but then changed the call during a timeout without notifying the team. Cuban believes that this was the worst officiating non-call mistake in NBA history.

However, the referee, Sean Wright, has disputed Cuban’s account of events. Wright claims that the initial ruling was in favor of the Warriors, and that the second signal was for a mandatory timeout due to the Mavericks. If this is the case, then Cuban’s team was simply mistaken.

Despite the controversy, the Warriors were able to secure a victory over the Mavericks. Luka Doncic, a star player for the Mavericks, expressed his frustration with the referees at the end of the game, suggesting that they were being paid off. The loss dropped the Mavericks to the ninth seed in the playoff race, while the Warriors moved up to the sixth seed.