{"id":486573,"date":"2026-03-05T08:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486573"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:28:19","slug":"mike-brown-calls-out-officiating-sga-does-a-great-job-selling-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/mike-brown-calls-out-officiating-sga-does-a-great-job-selling-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Brown calls out officiating: SGA \u201cdoes a great job\u201d selling contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1679\" data-end=\"1980\">Brown\u2019s frustration centered on a late first-quarter collision involving Jalen Brunson and <strong data-start=\"1770\" data-end=\"1797\">Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/strong>, which he believed should\u2019ve been an offensive foul.<br data-start=\"1850\" data-end=\"1853\" \/>The <strong data-start=\"1857\" data-end=\"1882\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/strong> won 103-100 after the <strong data-start=\"1905\" data-end=\"1915\">Knicks<\/strong> missed two potential game-tying threes in the final six seconds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1982\" data-end=\"2230\">In his postgame availability, Brown singled out SGA\u2019s ability to influence whistles.<br data-start=\"2066\" data-end=\"2069\" \/>\u201cSGA, he&#8217;s a tough cover, and he does a great job of convincing the referees &#8212; probably better than anybody in the league &#8212; that he&#8217;s getting hit,\u201d Brown said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2232\" data-end=\"2487\">On the disputed play, Brown added: \u201cThat should&#8217;ve been his third [foul], the bucket shouldn&#8217;t have counted and we should&#8217;ve gone the other way with the basketball\u201d.<br data-start=\"2397\" data-end=\"2400\" \/>Brunson backed his coach: \u201cI&#8217;m going to have his back every single night. He has ours\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m not usually one to say 1st Quarter missed calls are a huge deal<\/p>\n<p>But this would have been THREE fouls on SGA in the 1st Quarter.<\/p>\n<p>NBA needs to let teams challenge no-calls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BGUJ23CzSH\">pic.twitter.com\/BGUJ23CzSH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Knicks Memes (@KnicksMemes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KnicksMemes\/status\/2029356230385516960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Thunder-Knicks 103-100, New York coach Mike Brown questioned a key no-call that could\u2019ve been Gilgeous-Alexander\u2019s third foul<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/New-York-Knicks.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486573"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486573"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486573"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}