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LeBron James was upset pinch NBA officials, specifically astatine nan replay center, aft nan Denver Nuggets topped nan Los Angeles Lakers 101–99 acknowledgment to a Jamal Murray buzzer-beater connected Monday night.
James was upset replay officials overturned a foul connected Nuggets guardant Michael Porter Jr., pinch nan convention saying he made marginal interaction pinch Lakers defender D’Angelo Russell connected a second-half play. James made his frustrations known.
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Los Angeles Lakers guardant LeBron James, #23, walks disconnected nan tribunal aft a nonaccomplishment to nan Denver Nuggets successful Game 2 of an NBA hoops first-round playoff bid connected Monday, April 22, 2024, successful Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
"I don’t understand what’s going connected successful nan replay center, to beryllium honest," James said. "D-Lo intelligibly gets deed successful nan look connected nan drive. What nan f--- do we person a replay halfway ... it doesn’t make sense. It makes nary sense. It bothers me."
James near nan property convention aft that.
Los Angeles blew a 20-point second-half lead which ended pinch Murray’s game-winning shot. Murray deed nan changeable complete Lakers halfway Anthony Davis.
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Jamal Murray, #27 of nan Denver Nuggets, guards LeBron James, #23 of nan Los Angeles Lakers, successful nan 2nd 4th during crippled 2 of nan Western Conference First Round Playoffs astatine Ball Arena connected April 22, 2024 successful Denver. (Matthew Stockman/Getty Images)
"I conscionable mislaid my equilibrium and fell. I deliberation A.D. was successful my measurement aliases personification was successful my measurement and I conscionable heard everybody shriek and that's really I knew it went in," Murray said.
Murray missed 13 of his first 16 shots earlier hitting nan astir important one.
"I told my teammates erstwhile I was struggling, ‘I’m gonna look for y'all,' and each azygous 1 of them told maine to support shooting," he said. "They told maine to enactment fierce and support looking for it, support hunting and erstwhile I had nan shot pinch 2 seconds left, I knew erstwhile I had made a couple, nan adjacent 1 should spell down, arsenic well."
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Los Angeles Lakers guardant LeBron James, #23, and Denver Nuggets guardant Aaron Gordon, #50, oculus nan shot during nan 2nd half successful Game 2 of an NBA hoops first-round playoff bid connected Monday, April 22, 2024, successful Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)
Game 3 is group for Thursday nighttime backmost successful Los Angeles.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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