The Chicago Bulls said they will officially...

The Chicago Bulls said they will officially protest Monday’s 109-106 loss to New York, a game the Knicks won on a controversial basket with one-tenth of a second left.

But NBA Vice President Rod Thorn, while agreeing with the Bulls that the shot shouldn’t have counted, said there was “no precedent, no mechanism” for overturning the decision.

The game in New York was tied, 106-106, with one-tenth of a second remaining in regulation time when Trent Tucker took the inbounds pass from Mark Jackson and swished a 26-footer to give the Knicks the victory.

The Bulls protested that the shot took closer to two seconds.

“It was not the fault of the timekeeper,” Thorn said. “It’s physically impossible to catch a ball and shoot in one-tenth of a second. They should not have counted the shot. It was impossible for him (Tucker) to do what he did.”