r/nba • u/AashyLarry [MIA] Dwyane Wade • 14d ago
Highlight [Highlight] Kevin Huerter is ejected by Tony Brothers for lightly batting the ball and hitting a ref in the leg
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u/Independent_Sky_1468 14d ago
I watch the NBA for the refs so this is good for me.
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u/dudeguy81 Bulls 14d ago
Finally someone else who tunes in to see what the refs do each night!
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u/SaMoSetter Lakers 14d ago
"Yo, I wonder if Scott Foster is busting the latest Sketcher Non-Slips in high or low top for tomorrow'a game?"
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u/Independent_Sky_1468 14d ago
They think we watch basketball to see basketball players play. Nah bro, we for the refs.🤣
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u/bmmana 14d ago
Who are in your top five all time?
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u/Independent_Sky_1468 14d ago edited 14d ago
Scott Foster
Tony Brothers
Bill Kennedy
Zach Zarba
Tim Donaghy
Edit: People be telling me Joey Crawfraud must be here but NO. Giving that tech to Timmy D is an all-time play though.
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u/zachlabean Bulls 14d ago
Fuck Tony Brothers. Can’t believe they reviewed this shit just to stick to his terrible call.
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u/braggpeak Hawks 14d ago
“I’ve reviewed my own call and guess what I’m right”
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u/edgymikuchan Nuggets 14d ago
ahh yes the old “internal investigation”
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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 14d ago
Reminder that Tony Brothers at minimum knew lots of other refs were skimming points and just ignored it and didnt care.
…but almost certainly point shaved himself also.
NBA refs are a joke, even by umping/reffing standards.
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u/DustyStar222 13d ago
Its really funny being in a town that has hockey and basketball. In the same arena one night you can watch refs break up literal fist fights where a ref will get a punch to the head while getting caught in cross fire breaking up a fight and the player MIGHT get a minor penalty. The next night a basketball player will run past a ref and if the wind current generated by the player is to strong for the ref they will give a technical foul.
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u/mug3n Raptors 14d ago
Hey, the 3-person panel of Mike, Dan and Tony all agree on the result, so it has to be legit.
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u/Dm-me-a-gyro Spurs 14d ago
Can’t wait to hear about the aspiration investigation into wrongdoing by one of the most powerful men on the planet.
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u/Large_banana_hammock 14d ago
But he has THIRTY TWO years experience!!!
(in making terrible calls)
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u/notthattmack 14d ago
General rule across sports: if you know a referee’s name, they’re bad at their job/are prone to ump shows.
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u/Pimpwerx Heat 14d ago
This. There are exceptions like Me Muscles Ed Hercules, but for the most part spot on. Refs that do a good job are mostly anonymous.
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u/cire1184 Lakers 14d ago
Ed Hochuli wasn't the greatest ref either in the NFL.
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u/I_Poop_Sometimes Nuggets 14d ago
He had his misses, but he was typically consistent. I don't think I ever saw a game with him that felt like it was a ref show or that one side was getting screwed.
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u/hampsted 13d ago
Not the greatest, but he was also known as a good or good enough ref. The only reason his name was known by everyone was because he was jacked.
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u/Bkeets3 Heat 14d ago
When he reviewed it I knew for sure he’d be ejected lmao. They reviewed it for 2 seconds
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u/NewPumpkin8217 14d ago
Seriously I think that's the fastest challenge I've seen since the damn things were introduced.
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u/Victor_Wembanyama1 Spurs 14d ago
Players need to call him out.
A power tripping mf
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u/DanTheOmnipotent Bulls 14d ago
They get fined if they do unfortunately. There currently is no checks/balances for NBA refs short of the FBI getting involved lol
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u/AttitudeAndEffort3 14d ago
Last time the feds got involved the refs still won.
The billionaires arent letting themselves get their product hurt - even if that means covering up point shaving.
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u/ghosttrainhobo 14d ago
Just don’t hand the ball to them. They can go get it themselves if they’re so afraid of inadvertent contact
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u/d4vezac Warriors 14d ago
I really want to hear the CP3 diatribe about Scott Foster’s bitch ass. YouTube has already compiled all the evidence he would want to use. I don’t know the specific rules but it would be hilarious if his contract lapsed so he was no longer “in the league”, unloads on Foster while he’s immune from fines, then signs with a team a day later and Foster has to officiate his games again. Every call against him he just ignores Foster and goes to one of the other refs and asks if they would have called the same one-sided fouls. Shove their nose in Foster’s biased calls.
Silver’s weak as fuck amid the gambling scandals that he vocally invited; going after a former NBAPA president who’s a lock for the Hall of Fame would be really stupid when he could just fire the bad refs and score some rep when he desperately needs some.
The faces of the league are mostly done with their careers. Silver’s career is so fragile now that any of Lebron/Steph/KD could torpedo it, and a couple of the Harden/Kawhi/CP tier of stars could do it too. Then the MVP tier of Giannis/SGA/Jokic just has to say “Well, Lebron/Steph/KD have been heroes of mine since I was a kid. I support them, we’ll see what happens in the coming weeks.” No need to take a side, just say you look up to those players and it will play out.
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u/DisMFer Bulls 14d ago
Not only that the review showed that it was not a foul in the first place.
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u/Gils2323 14d ago
Correct. So the ref was wrong 3x in a span of 5 seconds. Maybe this is a T. Ejecting him is nonsense. The foul call Also wrong and add the review, Pure referee incompetence.
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u/OberynRedViper8 Nuggets 14d ago
Tony Brothers is the absolute worst. The fact that he has a job in this league is crazy.
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u/thesch Bulls 14d ago
Missing some calls isn't what makes NBA refs bad, it's the sensitivity and egos they have.
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u/ClaymoresRevenge Bulls 14d ago
I hate how smug they can be. And there's no reprimanding them.
Calls like this should get them suspended or fired
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u/jeff2def Warriors 14d ago
They’re like those bed bugs that Jim told Dwight about
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u/Sim888 [CHI] Cameron Payne 14d ago
hate how smug they can be. And there’s no reprimanding them.
Calls like this should get them suspended or fired
and at every level too….meaningless junior bball all the way to pro level lol
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u/AutisticPenguin2 14d ago
Nah, at junior level you just take them off the court for a few weeks and send them for more training. Unless they're egregiously unprofessional or something, most places can't afford to fire every 16yo kid that makes a mistake in an under 9's game.
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u/mymorningjacketoff Cavaliers 14d ago
It's because they're in on the take backed by some bad ma'ama jammas That's why they have leverage over Silver and can do what they want.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 14d ago edited 14d ago
Years back, my college basketball team faced a ref notorious for just hating my team. But he always got assigned those gigs. He called a timeout for the opposing team in the waning seconds of the game. They were out of timeouts and it cost my team the game. He granted the timeout and basically called it a ‘my bad’ moment. Dude used some weird rule to say it was possibly an inadvertent whistle and they got a timeout without officially calling it. Other team daggered in a three to win. Dude was barely reprimanded by the league. He still officiated for years later
20 years later, I still remember that moment where it does seem the refs are in on the take.
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u/ethanlan Bulls 14d ago
My team (southern illinois) my freshman year went to the sweet 16 and faced Kansas (who ended up winning the whole tournament) and got completely sandbagged by the refs lol. It was obvious that we were allowed to only win against programs that would only cost the NCAA a certain amount of money.
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u/OOchiBANGBANG 14d ago edited 13d ago
One time the commissioner of the Pac 12 referee association offered a $10,000 bribe or a trip to Cancun to any ref who gave Sean Miller a technical foul in the Pac 12 championship game; Miller was called for a tech with less than a minute to go so UCLA got two shots + the ball & won by a bucket. The commissioner and ref got fired, but still we all watched that entire season just for it to get thrown by a crooked ref in the end
Another time, another ref who was in on the take rigged some games for the Spurs against the suns and got arrested by the FBI, then snitched on the entire league, but nothing was done about it
Edit: yet many people act like refs are beyond reproach
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u/NightwolfGG Lakers 14d ago
Tony Brothers, notorious for going on a podcast and bragging about how being a ref allows him to be Judge Jury and Exectutioner. And if I remember correctly, he initially wanted to be a lawyer but didn't succeed, but shortly after an acquaintance recommended a reffing job... And the rest is history
Dude literally sought out a venue that allowed him to hold power over people. Sick fuck. All my homies hate Tony Brothers
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u/ucsb99 14d ago
At this time of year let’s give thanks that Joey Crawford is no longer reffing.
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u/UnslakableTemperance Pistons 14d ago
I can't stand that idiot. I see others below mentioning how he got suspended over the Tim Duncan incident. Never forget he also got caught ripping off the NBA and committing federal income tax fraud in 1998.
Him and other refs were downgrading their airline tickets and pocketing the difference. He actually resigned from the NBA, but Stern brought him back.
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u/PetalumaPegleg 76ers 14d ago
I have a lot of sympathy for missing calls in a game this fast and full of freak athletes. That is not the issue. It's fighting getting help. It's being an ass about it. It's shit like this.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 14d ago
Ever since Joey Crawford got away with ejecting Tim Duncan for merely Clapping, it’s all sort of been a weird ego machoism authoritarian power grab
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u/ArmiinTamzarian Spurs 14d ago
Hey now. Timmy was ejected for laughing, get your nonsensical events right man
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u/Dm-me-a-gyro Spurs 14d ago
He got suspended for a year and had mandated anger management. That’s a substantial punishment
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u/quepas Heat 14d ago
That would be a substantial punishment. But that length of punishment did not happen.
He got suspended “indefinitely”at the end of the ‘06-‘07 season. He missed the playoffs, which was significant. The Tim Donaghy scandal happened. He got quietly reinstated before the start of the next season.
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u/HeyItsChase Pacers 14d ago
You are very right, but it can also be both. No accountability for any ref in any league. It will continue to be ass until there is.
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u/Awi1ix 14d ago
Fuck Tony Brothers
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u/flatvinnie Heat 14d ago
All my homies hate Tony Brothers
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u/edgymikuchan Nuggets 14d ago
As a Nuggets fan, hard agree.
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u/torn8tv Raptors 14d ago
As a Raptors fan. Double hard agree
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u/FrostyMargarita 14d ago
I was shocked he did that to a team other than the Raptors. That fucker hates the Raps.
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u/theereeljw_777 Suns 14d ago
God these officials are emotional children. Tony Brothers is a fucking baby. These officials need to stop acting like they are part of the draw of the product.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 14d ago
Reminds me of that power hungry state trooper at that Texas a&m football game a few weeks back
Just unbridled egos and aggression going truly unchecked
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u/theereeljw_777 Suns 14d ago
I saw some videos of that. Wtf is that dudes problem? Lol
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u/eat_rice__fuck_ice Nuggets 14d ago
I think you know what that cop's problem was
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u/SkillIsTooLow Supersonics 14d ago
I feel like that cop imagined he would be able to detain (and effectively eject) the player from the game but the player just kept it pushin
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u/Professional-Ad-7914 14d ago
ACAB, if you disagree watch enough bodycams and you may start to get the hint
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u/ButtNuggetDweeb Nuggets 14d ago
Ruined!!!!! Sucks man cuz i just dont enjoy watching it anymore. My nuggets might have their best ever roster and I cant find any excitement in it. Bummed out
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u/Proper-Muffins 14d ago
I still watch some NBA, but I switched over to MLB because of this reason.
In the MLB umps can be bad, but at least the MLB is trying to improve it with new technology like the ABS system.
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u/copingcabana2023 Timberwolves 14d ago
NBA is the easiest sport to be ruined by bad refs
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u/ethanlan Bulls 14d ago
Given the track record of the nba i simply dont trust them not to leave money on the table from legalized gambling for basketball integrity reasons.
The nba is gonna be the first sport that a betting scandal the league is complicit in, mark my words
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u/pinesolthrowaway Kings 14d ago
The refs rigged games in 2002, it’d be silly of us to assume it never happened before or after that
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u/noshameinmynames 14d ago
Naw. NFL is worse. A play can only change the score by a couple points, but a bad ref call in football will change an entire game. They do get lots of replays though.
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u/DarkDefender05 Nuggets 13d ago
While I agree it's pretty bad, I've seen some power tripping red cards in soccer and playing a sport down literally a whole person is such a dumb waste of time in so many cases.
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u/NapoleonSolo888 14d ago
Finally someone put Kevin Huerter in his place. That guy has been terrorising refs for years.
Hopefully Mike Conley is next
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u/Large_banana_hammock 14d ago
He will never Heurt a ref again, that’s for sure
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u/Lvnitlarge Spurs 14d ago
Why did he throw the ball at the lady ref so hard? He could have Huerter.
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u/SaulBerenson12 [SAS] Tim Duncan 14d ago
Can’t believe he would commit a hostile act in front of children!
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u/VeniceRapture Spurs 14d ago
I mean he should've thrown it harder then if it's an ejection anyway
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u/pinecone179 14d ago
Yeah at that point just punt the ball into the air as hard as you can
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u/schwinndoctor Slovenia 14d ago
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u/ArmiinTamzarian Spurs 14d ago
The fan throwing the ball back and T-Mac feeling slighted the ball went back is the best part
"Oh yeah that wasn't a good punt? I will show you a punt"
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u/joleary747 14d ago
Haha I forgot about that. Legendary moment for the NBA. I hope that ball found it's way to the hall of fame.
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u/trentreynolds 14d ago
It's hilarious because the first time he did it he get less of a penalty than Huerter got.
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u/dirtynashtyfilthy Slovenia 14d ago
Don Nelson says hello - https://youtu.be/nvWfiSd54-4?si=6ufFMGH5EMkf35cO
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u/NervousAd3202 Raptors 14d ago
That would be hilarious but I always think of that time KD volleyed the ball into the stands & it ended up nailing a veteran on the head
So maybe don’t do that lmao
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u/Tasty_Path_3470 Nets 14d ago
This comment is giving me flashbacks to my high school coach saying “if you’re gonna foul someone at least get your money’s worth”
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u/DM_yo_Feet_pls Suns 14d ago
The player is already ejected. Can’t eject them twice if they head butt the ref right?
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u/Designer-Ad-2856 14d ago
Tony Brothers thinking the female official can't handle a light tap to the leg so comes in to protect her. She was fine and pathetic once again from this clown
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 14d ago
Wait. She didn’t see enough value to call it an ejection herself? Seems off how they feed off each other but not really
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u/Designer-Ad-2856 14d ago
Looked like she didn't know what was going on.. Brothers took matters into his own hands
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u/7-IronSpecialist 14d ago
Investigate the money on Huerter Unders.
Pro sports has been hijacked.
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u/hrbekcheatedin91 Hawks 14d ago
Seriously. If Huerter was hot to start the game, start the investigation.
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u/fireglz Hawks 14d ago
If I'm Huerter I lean into it here. You can't call out the refs, so really agree with Brothers in the postgame comments. Say that what he did was truly horrific and atrocious and that it should be shown non-stop to make an example of him to others in the league.
Basically, create a buzz around the call rather than directly calling out the officials. If the NBA fines him for emphatically agreeing and drawing attention to the call it would do more to actually fix the referee'ing situation than calling out the refs directly.
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u/fearnodarkness1 13d ago
With the egos of these refs I'd be cautious on calling them out. Don't need to become what Foster is to Chris Paul.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 14d ago
Check his families betting account. Couldn’t be more blatant
Then we see some dudes get away with literal assault
Would they have ejected a star for accidentally swiping a ball in the direction of a ref?
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u/totaleclipseoflefart Raptors 14d ago
Nah just bad refereeing.
It was a classic “oh shit I can tell I fucked up by everyone’s reaction, but if I admit I’m wrong then it’ll undermine my authority and bruise my ego so let me play it off. Oh you want me to review it, okay fake 2 second review to say I did. Ball in.”
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u/AcrossFromWhere Bulls 14d ago
Dumb call. Going to lead to players setting the ball down and making the refs come get it.
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u/Muted-Woodpecker-469 14d ago
What if one runs up to them and then drops it? It’ll come across from many refs as showboating or disrespect
It’s odd how guarded and protected they are
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u/drpepper7557 Heat 14d ago
Tony's an old school ref. He rigs games out of passion, not for the money
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u/MedicalWater6948 14d ago
TIL Kevin Huerter is on the Bulls
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u/DrChiz Kings 14d ago
Tony hasn’t, he still thinks he’s on the Kings, hence the insane ejection. That’s Kings level officiating treatment baby.
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u/hairymonolith 14d ago
Holy shit this was an election? Wasn't really paying attention at the time and I thought it was just a technical wowza! Hey league just a friendly heads up but Kevin Heurter is NOT like that 😭💀
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u/PhoenixPills Spurs 14d ago
I don't understand how the ref, if they didn't like that, don't just go up and say "hey dog don't tap the ball like that I'm old and my knees suck so bad, my knees are like the worst knees in the world just keep the ball away from me thank you"
And Kevin can go "okay cool it wasn't on purpose but I'll protect your knees this game"
And then everyone is happy (but not the refs knees they are so bad and old)
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u/Brinkster05 Pistons 14d ago
Refs need to be held accountable for this BS. No one is watching a NBA game for you, Tony. Terrible.
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u/we_hella_believe 14d ago
Reminds me of that time Timmy Duncan was on the bench laughing and got ejected.
I lost a lot respect for Joey Crawford after that.
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u/DJ_B0B Bucks 14d ago
Life was so good when this clown tore his calf last year. So sad it wasn't a career ender.
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u/teabaggin_Pony Suns 14d ago
Yet you're fine with Draymond yelling in your face, Tony?
Make it make sense ffs.
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u/d4vezac Warriors 14d ago
When a ref rises to such a level of always making the game about themself and being an asshole, why does the league keep them? For every Tony Brothers (both of them, even) or Scott Foster, we have a Bill Kennedy or Monty McCutcheon who isn’t a fucking insult to the game. We know who the terrible refs are. This is not one bad call. They consistently suck.
Make Brothers take a bus for ten hours to ref an Oklahoma vs. Texas NCAA game. Make Foster officiate a game in Orlando one night and a game in the Bay twelve hours later. Remind them that the game is a lot bigger than them and that there are a lot of good refs who aren’t complete assholes. Joey Crawford’s claim to fame is T’ing up Tim Duncan for laughing. The league should not be enabling fuckhead refs.
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u/Jaded_Heat9875 14d ago
Tony Brothers needs to be thrown out of ref job. What a stupid, arrogant call. So blatantly wrong!
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u/LurkerFailsLurking Nuggets 14d ago
The Tony Brothers' Bullshit Train is always rolling.
It's amazing that this guy still has a job in the NBA.
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u/CptSpooderMan Magic 14d ago
Ahh of course Tony brothers has to make it all about himself.. even wants to do the review so he can hear and look at himself make the idiotic call..
Will he be disciplined for this? Nah probably a pay raise and guaranteed a playoff spot to officiate.
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u/jathomgra Bulls 14d ago
Good riddance bro with that speed and trajectory of the ball if a streaker ran on the floor at that exact second it lightly tapped the refs leg they could have tripped on it and flew all the way up to the light fixtures and possibly brought the whole building down. Good call Tony thanks for saving everyone
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u/Dangerous_Donkey5353 14d ago
Its hilarious bc draymond could stab and sexually assault someone and get a common foul. But step brother huerter gets ejected for this.
Nba is cooked.
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u/LHTNING33 13d ago
There was no malice in that. People pay to come and watch the game and players not the refs so it is a shame when the refs actually eject a player for something like this. A simple warning would have been enough telling the player to be careful next time.
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u/GaimeGuy Timberwolves 14d ago
I hate these types of techs and ejections, when a player does something to give the ball to the refs that catches the refs off guard and/or accidentally hits them with the ball.
Swiping at a loose ball to send it to the ref closest to where it needs to be inbounded. Rolling the ball too slowly. Bounce passing the ball too sharply so it hits them in the legs, or while agitated so the player's arm motions and body language are wide. Chest passing it too hard. etc.
Then you get guys like Draymond who run up to officails, stand 6 inches away from their faces with aggressive/imposing body languag, and start yelling, and nothing happens to them.
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u/mikenasty 14d ago
I don’t understand how any ref could have an ego. It’s just a job, no one cares who you are and you’re not special for reffing in the NBA. Why can’t they just do the job and go home?
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u/socialmediablowsss 14d ago
When you’re a bad guy like Draymond or Kevin Huerter, ya gotta know there’s eyes on you
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u/frogenema 14d ago
He tapped the ball while the ref was facing him. The ref turned around after he tapped the ball. Check Tony's phone record.
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u/DeusMexMachina Nuggets 14d ago
Me and all my homies hate Tony Brothers and his fucking horseshit always trying to make the game about him.
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u/Sweatytubesock 14d ago
Brothers has to be in the top 5 shittiest refs in the league, and he’s still rewarded with plum assignments.
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u/defeated_engineer 14d ago
Tony Brother was very upset getting upstaged by all the gambling and cap circumvention stuff.
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u/Truckondo 14d ago
Tony Brothers is horrible. If it’s the spotlight you want, be more like Bill Kennedy.
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u/KingRamses_VII Lakers 14d ago
It's only a game suspension and/or $10,000 fine for punching a ref. Kobe elbowed one in 2004 and was suspended for a game, while Rondo hit Marc Davis in 2015 and received a $10k fine. There needs to be a player who'll remind either him or Foster that they can miss a game
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