[Lowlight] Ant gets two technicals in 5 seconds of gameplay, is ejected for the final 20 seconds of overtime
This production crew is beyond ass. Would be nice to see if he actually poked the ball
They never bothered to show anything about the second tech either. Kind of an important replay and I have no clue what happened. Also shoutout to the A/V team that somehow completely fucked the video near the end of this clip
Another commenter said that Ant flipped off Foster. Probably makes sense why they didn’t show it.
If that’s true, then yeah, that’d do it, lol.
ah yeah. if you flip off the ref you’re gonna get ejected.
But seriously, Fuck Scott Foster
Does anyone like Scott foster? I mean fuck that guy
Is the middle finger bad enough not to show on tv?
Obviously I understand giving him a tech for it, but I guess I’ve never even considered whether that’s ok to broadcast or if it needs to be censored like swear words
https://imgur.com/57tAYdT
When the FBI was investigating Tim Donaghy for sports betting they found he had called Scott Foster 136 times that year. That is 8 times as much as he called his wife.
I rewatched multiple times and couldn’t figure out either tech honestly
The first one was easy to see. He was trying to swat the ball out of Jokic’s hand during an inbound. Stupid shit to do- especially considering the moment. Ant Edwards is a child.
They could also make it clear the baseline thing had nothing to do with his ejection
The first tech was for poking the ball out of Jokic’s hands on the inbound and the second was for flipping off the ref.
The first one wasn’t for that because that’s a “team tech” and individuals dont get ejected for team techs.
But I don’t blame you for not knowing that because they should have really made that clear on the broadcast
I swear to god I thought it was Randle, and still kinda do
What I was thinking. Couldn’t even figure out what happened.
It was like that the whole day. The league clearly told the production crews to avoid talking about replay challenges and to hide the reffing problem.
That’s why I like prime better
Scott Foster picking up another highlight this late into this career. The longevity is incredible.
Everybody is talking about that bum LeBron as if putting up 30 points at age 41 is special, but nobody is talking about the REAL GOAT putting up these numbers at damn near 60.
Two techs given within 5 seconds to the best American basketball player in OT of the last Christmas game of the day ends the Goat debate. It’s Foster, and it’s not particularly close.
All I’m going to say is when the lights were brightest, Lebum wilted and Scott “Fuck you CP3” Foster shined.
Love the narrative but simply not true. Delay of games get assigned to team tech and it does not appear like Foster even makes the call on the second. Its the other ref that makes the motions.
Always giving the fans what they paid to see. More of him.
Idk what he did on the second tech.
Gave Scott foster the bird
Necessary
Legend
the ref who deserves it the most. based
One guy said that in the PGT and it’s just kind of been repeated. Nobody has a clip of this? That’d go huge in the Awoooo video.
I just saw a clip on tik tok and he looked like he flipped off Foster when he was leaving the arena, not sure if that was the second time. Account was @WorthTheReplay
Why would he be leaving if he wasn’t ejected yet?
Edit: Is it this video? I don’t see anything on that account about Ant flipping someone the bird.
He knocked the ball out of jokics hands so he couldn’t inbound it.
He isn’t a boring kind of player.
Scott Foster just ruined an otherwise Xmas classic because of his ego
Instead of talking about the game now we are all gonna argue calls cause the refs suck dirty hobo weiner
My thoughts exactly. I would’ve been disappointed but accept a hard fought loss but putting the ref stank on the last 30 seconds of ot just completely ruins it and the mindset around it. Instead of just thinking “we got outplayed” I’m instead thinking about how stupid a ref call was
I’m still gonna talk about the game, that shit was electric.
For what it’s worth, it was a hell of a game before that. I love how these two teams can have stretches against each other where you think, “Damn, they’re carrying this one all the way home,” and then five possessions go by and the lead has swung drastically the other way haha.
Yall would be bitching if you lost, let us cope
I’m literally agreeing with you
Oh mb g, I misread your comment
We all make mistakes in the heat of passion, Jimbo.
Also fuck Scott Foster
All the homies hate Scott Foster
Lmao this comment has me rolling
Wallet*
That first one was a delay of game - I don’t think that counts towards ejection. He must’ve gotten two quick ones after the shitty DDV foul call
Someone at the game said that Ant gave Foster the bird for the 2nd tech.
That makes sense
Also makes sense why they didn’t show the replay for why he was ejected.
Yeah fair
Ya definitely nothing in the clip shows whether it was justified. Delay is a team tech
Yeah I assume he said the magic words (twice) but that was a real bad call on the DDV foul
Ya, and to be fair we also hate foster. He fucked us in the playoffs. But the big calls i think were fair with the closest one being the divencenzo foul on jok.
Yeah the one on Rudy was easy and I’m kinda shocked he screwed it up prior to the review. But the DDV one was just a weird play that shouldn’t ever have been a foul. Bigger issue was Ant getting whacked on the arm going to the rim, but he so rarely gets those calls when the ball goes in.
I feel like in this league you have to be a skinny dude to get calls. Jok gets slapped around and rarely gets calls too, with rare exceptions where he gets treated well by refs. I think it’s cause they’re big but who knows, harden and embiid do pretty well too
Yeah, Jokic flails a lot too, but I don’t blame him as he gets fouled a ton with no call.
IMO it’s an issue with the rulebook. If they’re going to draw the line between marginal and non marginal contact as effecting SQBR, then the same arm slaps on big dudes are going to be perceived as marginal skinnier dudes get the calls. Plus it means you HAVE to flail around to show you were impacted to get the call.
I love the game and love the league but this is getting worse and they need a CBA-level solution with some big ass fines for refs, flippers, and probably a rewrite to the rulebook
Ya rulebook but also i think refs try to avoid bias but they’re human. Sga is known to play the refs so they give him the benefit of the doubt subconsciously. Same for people like caruso on defense. Or when they called palming, then a minute later again on jokic this time. That recency bias made them look for it more. Rules need to change though, jumping into a defender to create contact needs to be phased out. Intentionally swinging your arm into a defenders arm should be no call.
Agree on all counts!
Rudy also get fouled a ton with no calls. NBA refs aren’t good at seeing contact on players that can take contact.
If he was set in place it’d be an easy call against jokic. But he jumped and made a lot of contact with jokic. If a defender jumps and has that much contact by the rim it’s an easy foul on the defenders it’s just weird because it happened far from the basket.
Yeah that’s just not true though. Defenders are always allowed to jump straight up - they call it “verticality.”
That applies to contesting shots. You can’t argue that’s a shot
No, it’s always true. It just doesn’t come up very often outside of contesting shots
I just read the rule. It applies to restricted area
The first one was when he poked Jokic at the free throw line earlier in OT.
No it wasnt - he got two at 20.5s remaining, which is why Murray shot two FTs
This is me learning that delay of game techs don’t count toward ejections like they do in college and FIBA. Thanks!
I meant Ant got a delay of game warning when he poked Jokic at the free throw line and then got the delay tech after poking the ball at the inbound.
Oh I don’t think he got the warning with the free throw line thing, but Randle / the Wolves definitely got one earlier in the game. If he had been assessed one at the free throw line it wouldve been a tech then
ETA: It was 4:10 left in OT after Ant’s second made FT. Randle was pushed into the ball. Horseshit delay warning
Here’s the video of the first one: https://www.nba.com/stats/events?CFID=&CFPARAMS=&GameEventID=687&GameID=0022500013&Season=2025-26&flag=1&title=Edwards%20Free%20Throw%202%20of%202%20(37%20PTS)
That one got a warning, which is why this second one got a tech.
He already had a delay of game warning from earlier because he did the same thing where he tapped the ball out of Jokic’s hand when he was at the FT line, that’s why this one was a tech.
In most sports 20 seconds would be nothing but in the modern NBA it’s like 15 minutes
It’s modern if you’re referring to 60s or something like that. This is what competitive games look like when a team 3-5pts down is trying to crawl back with a minute left. It’s just that we rarely see competitive games during regular season.
Scott Foster is a b1tch ngl
What was the second tech even for? I’m lost brother
Is this the league ppl want to see? I truly don’t understand. Hopefully this BS gets bankrupt.
I have watched less this season than ever before. If there’s even an ounce of ref bs in a game I usually just call it to not piss myself off even more
Three OKC b2b titles later…
I hate Anthony Edwards with a passion but what the fuck was Scott Foster doing for the entire 4th + OT?
Foster having a blast out there
Fans who paid to see him were eating so good.
Anta Claus
We always takes Ws, but Min didnt deserve to lose this way
A star like Ant gets treated like this meanwhile Draymond gets diplomatic immunity and gets even more bold after 1 tech
the extender had Christmas plans and didn’t want to keep extending the game
What was the 2nd tech even for ?
Scott Foster TV time.
Soft
Refs are softer than youngest generation
it could be the rare 1 tech ejection. prob said some magic words
similar to what draymond did vs suns a few nights back
He gave him two quickly - the one tech ejection still only comes with one FT.
Wasn’t one of those FT for getting a second delay of game?
No that was 5 seconds earlier
He even hit jokics hand whist jokic was at the line luckily wasn’t given a 2nd tech earlier
Good cuz I paid $500 to watch Scott Foster ref and not watch the players play
Bah Humbug.
Soft but still immature from ant. He just started grifting at the end
I think I’d be mad too in his position all things considered
Why did that Wolves staffer stop Ant from taking his jersey off? Are they not supposed to do that anymore?
He had blood on it so he came back and gave him a clean one.
Genuinely idiotic play
This was so baffling between Ant and Randle. Both played their ass off, willed their team to OT. Then both do the stupidest, most unhelpful, unnecessary things to throw the game away.
It was almost like they intentionally wanted to end the game early. Whether its fair or not, I always felt the team being a mess in clutch time was a Finch thing. This just adds to that for me.
Smart
Lmao Can’t Man thought he had them after 9-0 in OT but then crashed out in the most spectacular way.
Merry Christmas everyone!
Absolute CTE from the wolves, could’ve definitely won that game if they kept their heads
Very much deserved.
He pointing at all his baby mamas
Game sealing 2 techs and a turnover, boxscore looks good though
Gonna poke the ball from joker. Im so funny.
Thats a clear tech but the other tech is fkin bullshit
What was the second tech for?
Hurting Scott Foster’s feelings
He gave Foster the finger😭
They didn’t call that a tech.