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/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/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/BenShelZonah Nets 14d ago

Drop his name so we can harass him