NBA corrects final score of Cavs-Wizards game after made free throw

Tre Johnson made the free throw. The arena saw it. Wizards fans saw it. The scoreboard did not.

The rookie guard stepped to the line in the second quarter Friday in D.C. and knocked down the first attempt — but that point never got added. Play continued like nothing happened. The Cavaliers blew the doors off Washington anyway, winning 148-114.

The next morning, the league acknowledged the miss and fixed it.

“With 8:15 remaining in the second quarter, Tre Johnson’s first free throw attempt was incorrectly entered as a missed free throw, when in fact he made both,” the NBA said in a statement. “The game statistics have been corrected.”

So the final is now 148-115.

Johnson officially finished with 19 points and a 2-of-3 mark at the line.

NBA league ops exec Tim Frank told The Athletic this was simply “human error” by the in-arena stat crew, and that the league’s auditing process caught it later.

And yeah, one point didn’t change the outcome. The Wizards were blasted. CJ McCollum led the way with 25. Donovan Mitchell went for 24 for the Cavaliers. That moved the Cavaliers to 6-3 (now 7-3). Washington dropped to 1-8 (now 1-9).

But even for a 34-point loss, that’s still a weird one. A point scored. A point not counted. Then a point returned the next morning.