LeBron James was upset after the Los Angeles Lakers squandered a good opportunity.
His annoyance wasn't so much over losing a 20-point lead. Or his late missed 3-pointer, which rimmed out with the game tied. Or Jamal Murray's fadeaway buzzer-beater that lifted the Denver Nuggets to a 101-99 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of their first-round series on Monday night.
James' rage came from a greater distance: the NBA's replay centre in Secaucus, New Jersey. At the centre of his rage was a second-half foul on Michael Porter Jr. that was reversed by the league because MPJ made only minor contact on D'Angelo Russell.
"I don't understand what's going on in the replay centre, to be honest," said James, whose team returns to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Thursday, behind 2-0. "D-Lo was certainly smacked in the face during the drive. What the (expletive) do we have a replay centre... it makes no sense. It doesn't make sense. "It bothers me."
James was not his normal talkative self in his postgame interview after the Lakers saw Murray and the Nuggets come back from a 68-48 deficit to win their 10th straight game against the Lakers.
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