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Golden State Warriors vs Los Angeles Lakers Full Game Highlights | Jan 21, 2019
Most people tuned into the Warriors-Lakers game at the conclusion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to watch DeMarcus Cousins in his second game back. Klay Thompsonwound up stealing the show.
Thompson made his first 10 3-pointers, an NBA record, en route to 44 points on 10-for-11 from downtown -- and 17-of-20 overall -- as the Warriors throttled the Lakers, 130-111, for their eighth straight win and 10th in their last 11 games.
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before missing. 
When Thompson gets this hot, he's the best shooter on the planet. After scoring 21 points in the first half, Thompson entered full nuclear mode coming out of the locker room for the second half, posting 12 points in the first three minutes of the third quarter. At one point he had 23 points in the third while the Lakers had 20 as a team. Thompson finished with 23 points in the quarter on just nine shots -- 7-of-8 from 3. Halfway through the quarter the Warriors were just toying with the Lakers, passing up shots all over the place to feed Klay the ball. After that, the layup drill started for everyone else as the Lakers didn't know which way to turn.
The NFL is never going to live down the missed pass interference call on Nickell Robey-Coleman that essentially cost the New Orleans Saints a Super Bowl appearance. They shouldn’t. But what will be talked about much less is how the Saints also benefited from multiple missed calls by the officials at other points in the NFC Championship Game on Sunday.
There was a visible facemask on Jared Goff on second-and-goal late in the game with the Saints up 20-17. Had that been called, the Rams would have had first-and-goal and a very good shot to go up 24-20.
Other missed calls included a facemask committed by the Saints against Rams receiver Brandin Cooks, and a delay of game that preceded a Saints touchdown in the third quarter.
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Because those calls were not made and the game was were it was, everyone will focus on what cost the Saints. Heck, even the NFL admitted they blew the call.
But like Sean McVay said after the game, the referees were letting the players play and compete. It was a physical game where a lot of calls were missed. The blown call, as bad as it was, was part of the give-and-take that so many fans will overlook.
After all the insanity of Championship Sunday wrapped, it was almost hard to comprehend all the crazy things that happened throughout the day. One thing stood above all else though: the Rams pass interference penalty against the Saints that went uncalled by the referees and ultimately allowed the Rams to advance to their first Super Bowl since 2001.
Lingering with that game and the outcome is the NFL's lack of a statement about the lack of a penalty. And lingering over that is a pretty insane and broad rule in the NFL rulebook that would allow NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, should he so choose, to reverse or reschedule the outcome of the game between the Saints and Rams.
No, really. Goodell could either tell the Rams "sorry" and send the Saints to the Super Bowl or he could make them play the NFC Championship Game again. Either situation falls deep in the realm of the unlikely, but Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1, as noted by Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, does exist.
And it reads like this:
"The Commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game."
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