Insult to Injury: NBA L2M Report Reveals Costly Error Against Mavs’ Dinwiddie

The Dallas Mavericks did a lot of things wrong in their loss to the Denver Nuggets on Sunday night, but an incorrect no-call by the officials in the last two minutes didn’t help matters either.

Dalton Trigg | Nov 21, 2022

Just when the Dallas Mavericks and their fan base thought things couldn’t get any worse after the deflating 98-97 loss to the depleted Denver Nuggets on Sunday night … here comes the NBA’s Last Two Minutes Report.

On Monday, the NBA announced that there was an incorrect no-call that benefitted the Nuggets in a big way at the end of the game. With 1:35 remaining, Spencer Dinwiddie was hit by Denver guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, which not only resulted in a Mavs turnover, but also Dinwiddie’s shoulder popping out of place.

Due to the injury, the Mavs were forced to foul the Nuggets to stop play, giving Denver two free throws to cut the Dallas lead to two points as Dinwiddie left the game.

Obviously, there are many reasons for Dallas’ underwhelming performance on Sunday, including: the team shooting just 12-21 from the free-throw line, Dorian Finney-Smith, Reggie Bullock and Tim Hardaway Jr. combining to go 2-19 from the field, and that weird halftime reversal of Luka Doncic’s halftime buzzer-beater that changed the score from the Mavs being up 59-52 to just 56-55 after a Nuggets prayer was answered when the reversal took place.

Regardless, we can now add an NBA officiating blunder to the long list of mishaps that contributed to the Mavs falling to 9-7 on the young season. It was the truest definition of adding insult to injury.

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Published Nov 21, 2022

DALTON TRIGG

Dalton Trigg is the Editor-In-Chief for Dallas Basketball, as well as the Executive Editor overseeing Inside The Rockets, Inside The Spurs, All Knicks, and The Magic Insider. He is the founder and host for the Mavs Step Back Podcast, which is a proud part of the Blue Wire podcast network. Trigg graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Business and Economic Development with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship in 2016. After spending a few years with multiple Dallas Mavericks-related blogs, including SB Nation’s Mavs Moneyball, Trigg joined DallasBasketball.com as a staff writer in 2018 and never looked back. At the start of 2022, he was promoted to the EIC title he holds now. Through the years, Trigg has conducted a handful of high-profile one-on-one interviews to add to his resume — in both writing and podcasting. Some of his biggest interviews have been with Mavs owner Mark Cuban, Mavs GM Nico Harrison, now-retired legend Dirk Nowitzki and many other current/former players and team staffers. Many of those interviews and other articles by Trigg have been aggregated by other well-known sports media websites, such as Yahoo Sports, CBS Sports, Bleacher Report and others. You can find Trigg on all major social media channels, but his most prevalent platform is on Twitter. Whether it’s posting links to his DBcom work, live-tweeting Mavs games or merely giving his opinions on things going on with Dallas and the rest of the NBA, the daily content never stops rolling. For any inquiries, please email Dalton@MavsStepBack.com.