Candace Parker’s Ex-Teammate Confesses Critical Refereeing Error That Won LA Sparks WNBA Title

Despite the uncertainty surrounding that moment, Ogwumike nonchalantly, stated on the podcast, “Calls are missed all the time, and you know, we saw in Game Five that there were a lot of situations where people felt like calls could have gone different ways. It’s a part of basketball. But you know, no one can take away the fact that I won a championship, so I’m not really going to complain about it.”

Late in a tight game 5, Ogwumike made a bucket after the shot clock had expired. The jumper with 3.1 seconds left on the clock, off the rebound of her blocked shot, came to be the winning move for the LA Sparks, with a one-point lead. The referees had refused to review it live, sparking the controversy. But the league would later admit that it was indeed a shot clock violation and “that the referees improperly failed to review the play under the instant replay rules.”