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The Toronto Raptors have officially filed a protest with the league office over a timekeeping error in Sunday's three-point loss to the Sacramento Kings, according to ESPN's Marc Stein.
After a deflection by Kings center DeMarcus Cousins from an out-of-bounds play, Raptors swingman Terrence Ross beat the buzzer with a three-pointer, releasing the shot with 0.5 seconds left in the game, tying the score at 102.
The NBA replay center determined that 2.5 seconds elapsed between Cousins' deflection and Ross' release, so the officials waved off the basket and ended the game without further play. Their decision was shortly after reaffirmed by the league in its last-two-minute report the following day.
The Raptors are protesting the decision on two claims:
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First, that the replay center officials (in Secaucus, New Jersey) had made their estimates of when the clock should have started based on frame-by-frame video, which doesn't accurately reflect the human element of having a timekeeper start the clock.
Second (and likely more influential), that Ross timed his shot based on the in-arena clock, (given how it's the only one he could possibly look at) and could have released the ball earlier had he seen the correct time. The team doesn't feel they should be penalized for a mishap caused by the Kings' timekeeper.
The NBA has five business days to make an official ruling.
