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Block or charge?
It was a call — the call actually — that halted the Mavs’ fourth-quarter rally and all but ended these NBA Finals as Boston won Game 3 Wednesday night to lock down a 3-0 series lead.
The play — Luka Doncic trying to draw a charge on Jaylen Brown that ultimately was called a block, which was Doncic’s sixth and final foul — has been on a circular loop on the sports networks.
And rightly so. It was a monster call, at least in that moment.