'Error' led to extra time on clock in Lakers win vs. Grizzlies - ESPN

NEW ORLEANS — More than a minute of extra game time was added to the clock in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' 123-120 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday, an NBA spokesperson confirmed to ESPN.

«We have confirmed that the game clock was inaccurately set in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers-Memphis Grizzlies game last night at FedEx Forum,» league spokesperson Tim Frank said in a statement Saturday. «After a shot clock violation, the clock was set at 2:20 when it should have been at 1:14. The error was not noticed in real time by the teams, the referees, the game clock operator or the stats crew. While unfortunate, the effort was not identified in time to resolve the situation in-game.»

The Grizzlies shot two consecutive air balls to end their possession with 1:14 remaining in the third quarter but the shot clock was reset mistakenly after the second attempt.

While Memphis guard Timmy Allen corralled the ball and hoisted up a third shot that also resulted in an air ball, referee Scott Wall whistled the play dead and signaled to the scorer's table of the shot clock violation, awarding possession to the Lakers on the sideline. Allen's shot, since it came after the shot clock should have already expired, did not count. When the Lakers inbounded the ball, the shot clock was reset to 24 but the game clock was changed from 1:14 to 2:20.

In the 1:06 of extra time, the Lakers and Grizzlies were tied 2-2, with Anthony Davis making a jump shot for L.A. and Jordan Goodwin making a jump shot for Memphis. The Lakers held on to beat the undermanned Grizzlies by three, with LeBron James scoring six straight points in the final minute to give L.A. a five-point cushion with 5.2 seconds remaining after they had