O Lakers and the Memphis Grizzlies in fact, he played more than 13 minutes in the third quarter on Friday because of a clock error that went unnoticed.
“We have confirmed that the game clock was incorrectly set in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers-Memphis Grizzlies game last night at FedExForum,” an NBA spokesperson said Saturday in a statement. “After a shot clock violation, the clock was set to 2:20 when it should have been 1:14. The error was not noticed in real time by the teams, the referees, the game clock operator or the statistics team. Although regrettable, the error was not identified in time to resolve the situation in the game.”
The mistake appeared on social media Saturday afternoon.
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The peculiarity comes at the end of a season in which the Lakers are preparing to play their final game of the regular season on Sunday – after having already played 82 games. The Lakers, as they played in the final of the season’s tournament, played an extra game that did not count in the classification.
The Lakers can secure eighth place in the Western Conference on Sunday with a win at New Orleans and would face the Pelicans or Phoenix in the play-in tournament depending on the outcome of the Suns’ final against the Timberwolves.
The Sacramento-Portland and Golden State-Utah games could impact the Lakers’ seeding in the play-in tournament if they lose in New Orleans.
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This story originally appeared on Los Angeles Times.
