In the midst of the outrage from players, coaches, and referees —all who find the league's last two-minute report distasteful and more of a finger-pointing tactic than a problem-solving norm — the league's Vice President of Basketball Operations Kiki Vandeweghe says the L2M reports are here to stay.
Vandeweghe told ESPN's Zach Lowe that they will also “probably” soon expand to full-game reports in the future.
Despite the huge amount of work that could be put toward something like a full-game report, this could in some way address the concerns Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant recently raised about the current system, where the league places an undue premium on the final two minutes.
“What about the first quarter, second quarter, third quarter?” Durant said after being proved right by the L2M report that he was indeed fouled by Richard Jefferson in the last seconds of regulation in a 109-108 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers on Christmas Day. “I think it's bull****.”
The decision to expand to a full-game criticism of every call is unlikely to please the referees union, which recently said in a statement that the last-two-minute reports “do not provide transparency, but offer only the illusion of transparency” and “promote hostility toward officials because the focus is never on the percentage we get correct, only the percentage incorrect.”
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