Sacramento Kings head coach Mike Brown. Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports

Mike Brown and the Kings are sick of bad calls

The Sacramento Kings can't get a call at the end of games. Coach Mike Brown just wants to make it to OT.

Wednesday night, Tyler Herro traveled before hitting the game-winning shot against Sacramento. Unfortunately the officials didn't call it live. 

Instead, the NBA's Last Two Minute Report acknowledged the error, which got the Kings a moral victory, but not a victory in the standings, the kind that actually matters.

Monday night in San Francisco, it was the Kings who were shooting last-second three. Kevin Huerter went up, Klay Thompson contacted his arm, and no whistles blew as Huerter's shot went awry.

For the second time in six days, a referee's call prevented Sacramento from taking a game to overtime. Had the refs correctly called a foul, Huerter would have had a chance to send the game to overtime by making all three of his foul shots with no time left. 

And had the referees called traveling on Herro, the Kings would have, at worst, gone to overtime in Miami, and at best, had six seconds to win the game themselves.

Huerter was unhappy after the game.

Technically, the Last Two Minute Report is accountability, but that won't make Huerter feel any better. 

Nor will the league's acknowledgement that before the non-call on Thompson, the refs missed a traveling violation on Steph Curry with 16.6 seconds remaining, which would have given Sacramento the ball down only a point.

Sacramento dropped to 3-6 with the loss, but when the officials do allow them to get to overtime, they're 1-0. Just ask De'Aaron Fox.

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