Celtics coach Joe Mazzulla said he couldn’t wait until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, when the NBA would release its Last 2-Minute Report from their controversial loss to the Pacers. He probably wasn’t thrilled with what he read.

In the final seconds of their 133-131 loss to the Pacers, two calls went against the Celtics that led to the defeat. With three seconds left, Jaylen Brown was fouled by Buddy Hield on a go-ahead shot attempt before the call was reversed following a Pacers challenge. Moments later, Kristaps Porzingis was whistled for fouling Bennedict Mathurin on a 3-point attempt with 0.6 seconds left, leading to Indiana’s game-winning free throws.

In its Last 2-Minute Report on Tuesday, the NBA ruled that the overturn call on Hield’s foul of Brown – when he made contact with Brown’s head – was the correct decision, saying that Hield made incidental contact of Brown’s head. But the league said that Porzingis should not have been called for the foul on Mathurin.

On the Hield foul of Brown that was overturned, the league said: “On replay review, the coach’s challenge of the shooting foul on Hield (IND) was deemed successful. The video clearly shows that Hield reaches forward and makes contact with the ball from behind Brown (BOS). While in contact with the ball, Hield also makes minimal contact with Brown’s head, and on review that contact was correctly deemed incidental. As the rulebook makes clear, the mere fact that contact occurs does not necessarily constitute a foul; contact which is incidental to an effort by a player to defend an opponent, reach a loose ball, or perform normal defensive or offensive movements is not considered illegal. Play resumed with IND possession, since Nesmith (IND) had imminent possession at the point of interruption.”

After the game, Brown was heated that the foul was overturned and called for the league to investigate the matter.

“I think he obviously hit me in the head,” Brown told reporters. “I think we definitely need to do some investigation, that’s all I’m going to say. I think that was an obvious one. Like I’ve never heard of (the) head (is) part of the ball. It doesn’t make any sense to me. And I asked him. I went up and asked … like did I get hit in the head? He looks me straight in the face, (official) James (Williams), and he says, ‘No, you didn’t get hit in the head.’ And I’m like, ‘OK.’ …

“Like that cost our team the game, and you expect us not to be frustrated, you know what I mean? We’re trying to build great habits. We’re trying to win as many games as possible, and we just dropped one because of that. So, I feel like we got the right to be upset and the league should understand. Of course we’re going to say something about it after the game, so I don’t think there should be any fines. But I definitely think that one should be investigated.” …

Brown claimed that Williams wasn’t telling the truth when asking him if he got hit in the head.

“I asked him, did I get hit in the head?” Brown said. “Because that was the one question I wanted to make sure that we both… and he said, no. And I asked him again, are you sure? And he said yes. That’s what pissed me off. Because I know I got hit in the head. And then you see the replay, it’s pretty obvious that I got hit in the head, and then you look me in my eye and tell me that I didn’t?”

On the ensuing possession, Porzingis was ruled to make contact with Mathurin on his shot attempt, but similar to the Brown play, the league said the contact was marginal.

“Porzingis (BOS) is above the ball and legally contests Mathurin’s (IND) shot attempt, with some incidental arm contact occurring concurrent with the block,” the Last 2-Minute Report said. “Referees conducted a replay review to determine if the foul was called with no time remaining on the clock, and determined it was called before the expiration of time. The clock was reset with 0.6 remaining on the clock. The foul itself was not a reviewable matter under this replay trigger.”

The Last 2-Minute Report also said that the officials missed a call before the Porzingis foul. As the Pacers were inbounding with two seconds left, Myles Turner should have been called for an illegal moving screen on Derrick White, the league said.

“Turner (IND) turns his lower body into White (BOS) and delivers contact during the screen,” the report said.

While the final calls were unfortunate, Mazzulla did recognize that the game was not decided on them. The Celtics gave up 44 points in the third quarter in an atrocious defensive second half against a Pacers team that lost All-Star guard Tyrese Haliburton to injury in the first half.

“Close games, like we always talk about, they aren’t necessarily won in the last few minutes,” Mazzulla said. “We took the lead, up two, battled back. But that third quarter, they just played with a little bit of inspiration, almost. …

“We all have to be better on defense. No 25-point quarters and a 44-point quarter isn’t good enough for us to win, so we all have to be better in that.”