Look... I will continue to beat this drum forever...NBA officiating is the most incompetent travesty I've seen in professional sports.
When you see someone just pick up the ball and walk 3 steps with it, and start dribbling again, calmly....in the middle of the court...just to be so nonchalant about it, tells you how little the rules are actually thought about during the game by some players. Malfunction...more like "who cares".
When Luka was driving at the end of the game, for 3 refs who are paid 6 figures to sit there, with only one action to follow truthfully, from 3 different angles to all miss this blatant foul with an unrestricted view on a point of emphasis....they should all be fired if the NBA was serious about officiating.
Just like the non-travel call on LeBron and inbounding the ball in off the rim to yourself (both plays that would have been called by the refs in my kids 3rd grade Upwards basketball league) is tanamount to being an accountant and not knowing how to add or that you have to place a stamp on a letter to send in to the IRS or knowing what the send button on an email is....this isn't extreme hyperbole.
In terms of being a cop, it's two policemen watching robbers from a robbery that happened right in front of them and watching the criminals run off down the street with no resistance...then arresting the shop owner who saw them sit there eating their doughnut, not doing their job, because he was irate at their blatant apathy about their purpose....AND this happens ALL the time in the NBA.
"TXB, that's crazy...comparing them to police and watching a robbery happen and doing nothing...it's not that important." Of course not, in the eternal scheme of life, but in the temporal reason they get paid, IT'S THEIR FREAKIN' JOB TO EXECUTE THAT VERY PRINCIPLE IN THEIR OWN CONTEXT.
Yet, when is the last time you ever heard about a referee getting fired? Donaghy? When's the last time the NBA came out and said "Well, that was too much, so Official so-and-so has been terminated"? Until stuff like that starts happening, they will CONTINUE to "whatever" their jobs like this.
Cuban had the right idea to outsource it and put unbiased evaluations on it years ago, but NBA FO didn't want to do that because Silver and Stern didn't care about getting calls right, they just want to create drama and get ratings...the game is secondary to the $$$ (like LeBron and Kerr's righteous political ideals to LeBron's NBA shoe sales).
The officials in the NBA are basically a less buffoonish version of the refs at professional "WRASTLIN'" matches that are just there to pretend to turn their back when the right guy gets an advantage to get the crowd going.
When you see someone just pick up the ball and walk 3 steps with it, and start dribbling again, calmly....in the middle of the court...just to be so nonchalant about it, tells you how little the rules are actually thought about during the game by some players. Malfunction...more like "who cares".
When Luka was driving at the end of the game, for 3 refs who are paid 6 figures to sit there, with only one action to follow truthfully, from 3 different angles to all miss this blatant foul with an unrestricted view on a point of emphasis....they should all be fired if the NBA was serious about officiating.
Just like the non-travel call on LeBron and inbounding the ball in off the rim to yourself (both plays that would have been called by the refs in my kids 3rd grade Upwards basketball league) is tanamount to being an accountant and not knowing how to add or that you have to place a stamp on a letter to send in to the IRS or knowing what the send button on an email is....this isn't extreme hyperbole.
In terms of being a cop, it's two policemen watching robbers from a robbery that happened right in front of them and watching the criminals run off down the street with no resistance...then arresting the shop owner who saw them sit there eating their doughnut, not doing their job, because he was irate at their blatant apathy about their purpose....AND this happens ALL the time in the NBA.
"TXB, that's crazy...comparing them to police and watching a robbery happen and doing nothing...it's not that important." Of course not, in the eternal scheme of life, but in the temporal reason they get paid, IT'S THEIR FREAKIN' JOB TO EXECUTE THAT VERY PRINCIPLE IN THEIR OWN CONTEXT.
Yet, when is the last time you ever heard about a referee getting fired? Donaghy? When's the last time the NBA came out and said "Well, that was too much, so Official so-and-so has been terminated"? Until stuff like that starts happening, they will CONTINUE to "whatever" their jobs like this.
Cuban had the right idea to outsource it and put unbiased evaluations on it years ago, but NBA FO didn't want to do that because Silver and Stern didn't care about getting calls right, they just want to create drama and get ratings...the game is secondary to the $$$ (like LeBron and Kerr's righteous political ideals to LeBron's NBA shoe sales).
The officials in the NBA are basically a less buffoonish version of the refs at professional "WRASTLIN'" matches that are just there to pretend to turn their back when the right guy gets an advantage to get the crowd going.
"There are no friends on the court." - Luka Doncic