Are you sure he’s still on the Bucks next season? Myles Turner get ready to speak Charlottese

I remember Cade called out the refs during the regular season and for the next month his FTA was cut in half lol.

Tony Brothers looks like a catfish

ACAB includes Tony Brothers

Bucks Wolves opener so he take out Finch and Turner the same night

Straight to NBA jail

He’s 30, got traded and got his huge last contract will end up making over 250m while he chills as a role player, don’t think he cares

Crazy unless he’s planning to retire. #NoCallsForYou

Just like his rebounds

I was going to post a version of the All Cops Are Bastards acronym, replacing cops with refs… but then I realized it would just look like I was a raging racist.

Bill Kennedy on his way with Tony brothers and Scott foster in the back

Fell out the window into a technical.

Saxophone Noises Intensifies

yeah I don’t know why some players think getting a reputation of complaining every little thing would help them. what does Jaylen Brown think he will accomplish if he accuses the referees of a grand conspiracy against him every big loss lol

Yup, but Luka is a massive complainer and gets lots of calls.

Liking this solely because of “the greatest master baiters”

Huh? Luka has a lot of FTA is definitely a top 1% complainer

Unless you’re Draymond, then you can basically do or say anything to a ref up to touch them and will benefit lol

No it’s actually way more simple than this. If someone goes after them you give this player a technical. Problem solved, no need to justify circlejerk that they all are creating 

You’re looking for a call and he just looks at you like this

Sounds painful

… I missed Bill Kennedy this season….

You get a blocking foul for your 6th and Bill Kennedy hits you with the double hip thrust

Better than by Ted

He’s a beer away from admitting the league is rigged and naming series examples 

Get me off this team!

He wants to be podcaster

No joke. He was setting the scene last offseason.

Just goes to show how many calls are marginal, and when the refs don’t give you the ⁵⁰⁄₅₀…

LA surrounds the refs after game 2 against OKC and then they had two games of like 30% fewer FTs lol

It’s not a “monumental allegation” for a player to share that refs have each other backs when a player “fucks with” one of them.

I really wonder what imaginary humans people think are out there that would be more competent than the current NBA refs. Perfection doesn’t exist.

Name a league with competent officials? The MLB was way worse for years and years and they only now added ABS. It’s a very hard job to do well. 

Yeah, referees are usually so beloved in major sporting leagues. NBA has a real major scandal on their hands if sports fans are starting to question the impartially of the refs.

Show me the league that fixed referring

What you’re asking for is for refs to not be humans. There is always going to be bias. What would you do to fix this?

This is such an overreaction lol. I wouldn’t even call this quote newsworthy

In a serious league players who talk like half these guys do to the refs would get tossed on the spot.

It’s not a monumental allegation because players bitch at the referees more than any other sport. Every single game a player will get 100% arm on a block attempt and then whine to the refs that it shouldn’t be called. NBA players have simply lost credibility on this topic because they think they never foul.

I think NBA refs are the worst out of any major sport, but the players are also the most insufferable

Ehh this isn’t the warning sign, it’s the play style and officiating style that are the problems.

I constantly see players trying to intimidate officials into giving them calls, so it’s a good thing veteran refs crack down on it.

The problems in the modern league are mostly overcorrections from past problems.

While I agree, it’s also their job NOT to take it personally.

And then when refs say anything back to them they immediately cry about how they’re being disrespected, it’s pretty pathetic.

The truth is that at least half of the league are emotionally stunted man babies who’ve never faced consequences for anything because they were good at sports from a young age.

I think it’s a pretty serious accusation - as I understand it he’s implying that they won’t give you a technical but rather ensure you’re officiated unfairly for at least the rest of the game as punishment. That is extremely unprofessional and a really bad look for the league if it’s true.

I agree it’s not a big deal if they just protect their colleague by issuing a technical, but i don’t think that’s what he mean.

No they’re supposed to call it how they see it

I think it’s a perfect accusation. If you voice your frustration with how one game is officiated then it’s going to affect you in all games.

Regardless of whether refs are supposed to be a collective, they don’t call games the same way

Google Scott foster and Chris Paul. His legacy and career got altered by a bitter ref

there would be a foul every 6 seconds

Not if the players adjusted

Just because following the rules is hard doesn’t by itself mean you shouldn’t follow the rules.

The rules here haven’t been enforced so people have an expectation they can break the rules and so when you enforce them it feels unfair. So the direction should be to clearly signal the rules will be enforced, then slowly increase your enforcement. It’s just not done at the NBA because first and foremost the NBA is an entertainment product and the sporting aspect is secondary.

Ref fan?

How does this have so many upvotes lmao he looks nothing like mos def

Bro what I think you got your rappers mixed up lol

I think you got scammed by a very bad caricature artist…

I can’t remember the details but it was sometime in the past two seasons where on b2b nights refs give different ruling and explanation on basically an identical situation, one ruling contact to the head automatic foul, and the other incidental contact/ no foul.

I disagree

Stopping the abuse/problem? Absolutely

Returning the favor by warping your calls for the rest of the game, or even over multiple games? That’s just unprofessional.

Also it’s about the approach. If you approach my coworker with profanity and acting like a dick. Then yeah I’ll be protective but if you come up to them and give a fair criticism or alert them to a mistake than I’ll be more respectful of your claim

Not the gotcha you think it is when their job is to be neutral

If they let their feelings and emotions decide calls they are bad at their job

If they cannot referee a game objectively according to the rulebook and instead let their feelings dictate their calls in the premier basketball league in the world, then they should not be allowed to referee in any sport whatsoever.

I am sure people like Tim Donaghy and Scott Foster have their own feelings too. I mean, they must have been sharing a lot of deep, emotional feelings during those 134 phone calls they made to each other right before and after the exact games Donaghy was betting on. And yet, Foster still has a job today and plenty of friends amongst refs.

And the rest of them have their own feelings too. Whether those feelings are for the rulebook or for certain other things.

Players yelling at referees is one of the underrated parts of the problem IMO. In any other sport, you aren’t allowed to have anything but a civil conversation with a ref or you’ll get penalized/ thrown out. But in the NBA you can yell at the refs and get no punishment it’s actually crazy.

It’s not a surprise referees would have a hard time calling a game if after every call they need to worry about dudes a foot taller coming over and screaming at them

Well, they do have immunity.

Dray doesn’t single out the rookie or female refs. He goes at the crew chief’s all the time, who are the most experienced refs in that game.

Myles is saying going after the rookie or female refs(because they would be easier to sway or intimidate into calling calls your way) is what get’s you in shit with the refs. That’s not what Dray does. 

Draymond goes at everyone, he doesn’t discriminate. Refs respect a real hater.