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NBA Summer League snafu: Mavericks score on what looked like the wrong basket after referee's error

For a brief moment, it appeared as though the Dallas Mavericks' Marcus Bingham Jr. made one of the biggest gaffes at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.

During the fourth quarter against the Indiana Pacers, Bingham Jr. caught a pass from Nike Sibande and sprinted away from the rest of his team for a wide-open dunk on the opposite end of the court. In that moment everyone — from the referees to the broadcast announcers to some of his teammates — thought Bingham Jr. scored on the wrong basket. The play was blown dead and Jared Dudley, the Mavs' Summer League coach, stared in confusion.