VIDEO: Blazers Ghost Foul on LeBron James Somehow Upheld by Replay Review in All-Time Bad Call
By Mark Powell
LeBron James gets calls. We understand this. Yet, officials always find a way to one-up themselves. In Saturday night's Lakers-Blazers game, James went up for what looked to be an easy lay-up. Yet, LBJ missed it on the front end of the rim, but was bailed out by the officiating crew.
This was called a foul live by the refs and *confirmed* via review...probably because they knew LeBron would get them fired otherwise pic.twitter.com/rwd8RJzhCC
— Bad Sports Refs (@BadSportsRefs) December 29, 2019
Uh...what exactly happened here? Let's allow the officials to explain:
The referee’s explanation for the Anthony Tolliver-LeBron James foul call in the 2nd Q: pic.twitter.com/r7uOnXWdp3
— Dave McMenamin (@mcten) December 29, 2019
The Blazers defender very clearly pulls back after thinking about making contact with James, as he knows that doing so could result in an and-one. While you'd expect the officials to admit their mistake via replay, they only doubled down, leaving the rest of us to laugh at their error.