Knicks' timeout error wasn't actually Mike Brown's fault at all
This was quite the odd ending.
Knicks' timeout error wasn't actually Mike Brown's fault at all originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . 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. MORE: What Steve Kerr leaving would mean to Steph Curry, Warriors 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.