A clock error and a little-used rule combined to cost the Magic a chance at beating the Lakers on Wednesday. Both things left the Magic Roberto Clemente Jersey salty.Quick setup: Orlando was down a point with sixth-tenths of a second to play after Brook Lopez made two free throws. After a timeout, the Magic attempted an inbounds lob to Aaron Gordon. While the ball was still in the air, the clock started and ran out, and the horn sounded.MORE: After a review by the replay center in New Jersey, it Felipe Vazquez Jersey was ruled there would be a jump ball at midcourt with six-tenths remaining. The Magic didn't even bother to contest the to s, and the game ended.Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, one of the most absurd clock operator gaffes/reviews in a long time occurs with Lakers up 1 ... 0.6 seconds left ... Magic ball.Clock starts earlyRefs go to monitorRefs rule jump ballGame ends LeWob James (@World_Wide_Wob) "We feel cheated,"Gordon told reporters postgame, per the Orlando Sentinel."It was just a terrible end of a game of basketball,"Gordon added. "It didn't even give us a chance to win Mitch Keller Jersey , and that's the last time we see 'em the Lakers . We wait a year to play 'em again. They've got to change that rule and I think they will.""It doesnt make any sense,"center Nikola Vucevic said, per the Sentinel.MORE: "I would think that you give the ball back to the team that had it," coach Frank Vogel said, per the Sentinel Joe Musgrove Jersey .Lead official Bill Spooner tried to make sense when speaking with a pool reporter:Official pool report comments from referee Bill Spooner following the bizarre ending to tonights game: Bill Oram (@billoram) The one good thing (maybe) for the NBA: This game involved a lottery team (Orlando) and a likely lottery team (LA), so there's little chance of the playoff races being affected.Then again, the Magic (20-45) "gained" a game in the Bryan Reynolds Jersey lottery standings, so the teams around them might not be too happy.Gordon, Vucevic, Vogel and the rest of the Magic don't care about ping-pong balls. They just know they had an opportunity to win, and then they didn't, for a seemingly dumb reason.