After the Warriors' wildly improbable 107-106 loss Sunday in Washington, Coach Don Nelson said he thought the league would be ``very disappointed'' with how the game ended: Gilbert Arenas being accorded three free throws -- one for a technical foul on Nelson -- after the final buzzer originally sounded.  He was wrong, the Mercury News is reporting.

``No, I'm not disappointed,'' Stu Jackson, NBA executive vice president of basketball operations, said Monday in a phone interview.

Instead, Jackson defended the work of referee Tony Brothers, who called Mickael Pietrus for a shooting foul as time expired. Nelson and the Warriors maintained Monday that because Arenas still had the ball in his hands when the final buzzer sounded, there was no way Pietrus could be charged with a shooting foul, since no legal shot was taken.

But Jackson said Nelson's interpretation was incorrect.

``Upon instant-replay review, it was determined contact (between Arenas and Pietrus) occurred with one-tenth of one second,'' Jackson said. Whether Arenas launched the ball before the buzzer is ``irrelevant.''

As for the technical doled out to Nelson by Derrick Stafford, the coach reiterated his denial of using an expletive while discussing the first call with Brothers, something a Washington reporter and multiple Wizards said took place.

``There was no swearing at all on the floor,'' Nelson said. ``What I did say was, `Tony, are you kidding me?' End of quote. No superlatives.''