JFC these late game calls.
it's gotten beyond ridiculous
I guess I don't understand the rules, because it makes no sense.
Are you guys complaining about these slap/out off bounds replay calls because:
Rule 8 Section II - c of the NBA rulebook states:
If a player has his hand in contact with the ball and an opponent hits the hand causing the ball to go out-of-bounds, the team whose player had his hand on the ball will retain possession.
The rule isn't new either, the only confusion is why, at the end of game 5, the officials crew didn't cite this as the reason for upholding the call instead of saying the replays were inconclusive.