After approximately forever, the NBA Playoffs are here. Everyone is in Orlando, not just the Magic, it’s August, and games are all day long…so not much makes sense.
But lo and behold, something that does make sense: NBA ref incompetence. Not even a world wide global killing pandemic is gonna stop them from their stupidity.
Naturally, when you’re playing without fans (the virtual ones don’t count, sorry not sorry)…you can hear basically everything. And with the amount of trash talking, that’s not good for NBA players.
Enter Marcus Morris and Kristaps Porzingis. Morris is known for bating in the playoffs…just ask Joel Embiid about that one.
Marcus Morris to Embiid
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“I’ll knock you the fu-k out”pic.twitter.com/cDvIygu4o7— Hoop Central (@TheHoopCentral) November 21, 2019
And that was a season and a new team for Morris after it happened, so you know he’s relentless. Probably shouldn’t mess with him. Especially if you already have a tech. But none of that mattered to Kristaps Porzingis, who already had a tech when this happened:
This pillow fight earned Porzingis his second technicals and an ejection https://t.co/k17F1yHHN2
— Bad Sports Refs (@BadSportsRefs) August 18, 2020
But come on…that’s absurd. No one outside of Clipper fans thinks he deserved that. Ejections and suspensions in the NBA playoffs can alter history (just ask Draymond and LeBron about that), so they damn well better be deserved.
Naturally, Twitter was less than thrilled with this.
Man that was BOGUS AS HELL MAN!!!!! Cmon man. 🤦🏾♂️
— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 18, 2020
That’s trash man! 🗑 #NBAPlayoffs
— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) August 18, 2020
That ejection is super soft…
— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) August 18, 2020
No ejection in the playoffs man
— Spencer Dinwiddie (@SDinwiddie_25) August 18, 2020
Yeah. There was lots of that. Maybe LeBron and Patrick Mahomes have the power to fix the NBA officahahahaha yeah right nothing will ever fix that.
But most importantly:
If FanDuel can be forced to issue refunds to DFS players for their incompetence, you should be forced too @OfficialNBARefs
— SideAction (@SideActionHQ) August 18, 2020
Exactly.
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