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The New York Knicks didn't use a timeout ahead of the final sequence of their one-point loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Monday night.
It wasn't a major playoff gaffe by the Knicks and head coach Mike Brown, though. It just appeared that way.
The reality is that the Knicks had used their last timeout with about 10 seconds left.
For some reason, though, the Amazon Prime Video broadcast showed the Knicks as having one timeout left. And it actually wasn't that way the whole time.
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Video captured on social media shows that the timeout was added back to the screen during free throws with 5.7 seconds left. Seemingly, someone on the broadcast team had decided they actually had the timeout graphic wrong.
That also led to the announcers discussing the scenario as if the Knicks still had one, but they didn't.
Watch what happens here: after CJ’s miss, a timeout is incorrectly added to the graphic.
The producer/director in Noah Eagle + Jamal Crawford’s ear, or possibly the statistician who sits next to them during the broadcast, is likely telling them the Knicks DO have a timeout.
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It obviously stunk for Knicks fans that their team lost, but in the moment watching the broadcast, it probably felt quite a bit like, "What are they doing?"
The reality is they played it out the way they were meant to, with no timeout to call. If they had called one, it would've been a Chris Webber-Michigan scenario, and it would've been made just as confusing by the Prime Video broadcast showing a timeout on the screen.
The little timeout graphic there made all the difference in adding the confusion of the end of a close game.
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