Jazz Beat Celtics Thanks To Horrible No-call On Jaylen Brown Trip

The Jazz hit nan Celtics 105-103 connected Monday nighttime acknowledgment to a Jusuf Nurkic tip-in pinch little than a 2nd remaining successful nan 4th quarter. Boston had a one-point lead successful nan last minute, but Jaylen Brown turned nan shot complete erstwhile Utah's Keyonte George slipped and slid into Brown's feet, causing him to autumn over.

No whistle was blown contempt nan truth that everyone agreed it was beautiful intelligibly a travel connected George, based connected nan truth that he fell down and Brown virtually tripped complete him. Luckily, nan NBA will dress up for this no-call by admitting successful nan Last Two Minute Report that this should person been a foul call.

That's a reliable no-call that only looks worse from different angle.

The Celtics still had a chance to necktie aliases triumph nan crippled successful nan last second, but Brown was called for an violative foul. Assistant coach Sam Cassell and teammate Derrick White held Brown backmost from having words pinch nan official.

In summation to making nan accidental protect play of nan game, George scored a season-high 31 points to spell on pinch 5 rebounds and 4 assists. George is averaging a career-high 21.8 points per crippled this play arsenic nan Jazz person avoided a wholly disasterous commencement to nan year.

Last twelvemonth nan Jazz mislaid their first six games earlier they won one. This twelvemonth they're 3-4, which is somewhat amended than nan Celtics, who are now 3-5.

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