Forget about Jontay Porter, ignore Shohei Ohtani, and fail to remember all the other sportsbook scandals.
We pretty much experienced Chick-fil-A-gate on our arms Sunday afternoon.
The scene was Crypto.com Arena (you know, the Staples Center), in which the Los Angeles Clippers ended up hosting the Houston Rockets. The game was meaningless for the approaching NBA playoffs, with the Rockets’ hopes for the Engage in-In Tournament presently dashed and the Clippers locked into the fourth seed in the West.
In the fourth quarter with the Rockets major 105-97 with much less than five minutes left in the activity, Rockets heart Boban Marjanovic stepped up to the totally free throw line. He’s a career 76.2% shooter from the charity stripe, and he … skipped the initially one particular.
Then items received exciting at the — ahem — fowl line.
Seemingly, the Clippers internet marketing group operates a advertising that obviously states if an opposing player receives fouled and misses the ensuing two no cost throws in the fourth quarter, every person receives a absolutely free Chick-fil-A sandwich.
This did not escape Boban’s — he’s a very first-identify basis sort of guy — focus. As he was readying himself for his next try, the enthusiasts began going insane. Flighty, if you will.
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Boban listened to them. He started out nodding and pointing to himself, then – seemingly purposefully – clanked it off the rim, elevated a pointed finger skyward, and the crowd clucked its acceptance.
No cost hen for everybody!
Boban.
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— NBA (@NBA) April 15, 2024
But uh, the overall
Of study course, we can’t have anything at all nice anymore, and so it’s in all probability value noting the Rockets were 2.5-level favorites at America’s sportsbooks – they coated quickly, profitable 116-105.
The full, as a result, was 221.
But uh … the full of the video game shut (consensus) at 222.5, which includes at DraftKings. Some textbooks had been possibly a small bigger, some a very little decreased. And know this: It was guess up to that amount. In actuality, an hour previously, in accordance to our sister internet site ScoresAndOdds, it was at 221.5.
And for a several several hours in the morning ahead of tip-off, it sat at 221.
Then Boban skipped those two cost-free throws. A person on function (most likely).
Spicy.
Now, granted, there was 4:44 on the clock when Boban laid an egg (as it ended up), so who knows what may have transpired had he not missed the 2nd endeavor or, for that issue, the initially?
Thankfully, despite some fevered browsing on X, no a single appears to be demanding a refund dependent on Boban’s hen household hijinks.
Of class, this could’ve turned unpleasant, but it appears as if America’s sportsbooks and the NBA dodged a bull-, effectively, and it appears they managed to feather the nest without the need of a ruffled feather.
