Posted on February 20th, 2008 by refpolice
“Do not put pressure on the referees to make the correct call” No joke, these words came from Hubie Brown’s mouth after a blown out-of-bounds call on a key jump ball in a 2-point game with 3 minutes to go in tonight’s entertaining Lakers-Suns game in Phoenix. After last year’s disaster, you’d expect better officiating from [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2007 by refpolice
Why is just about no one surprised they finally caught an NBA referee who had a stake in his own games and made calls to influence a point outcome. Did anyone who wasted any time watching NBA games and the NBA Playoffs say to himself “Gee, this looks legit to me.” Or, “Wow, and can’t wait to see how [...]
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by refpolice
Wowuch! This one is bad and it may have cost Detroit game 5 and the series. Late in the first quarter of tonight’s pivital game 5 in Auburn Hills, the usually cool and even-tempered Antonio McDyess came down with a hard foul on Cavs forward Anderson Varejao as he received a pass slashing to the basket. [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2007 by refpolice
In a cross-state rivalry game with playoff seeding implications but with plenty of potential playoff match-up preview buzz, referee Joey Crawford called a technical foul on Spurs center Tim Duncan as he sat on the bench laughing about a previous call Crawford had just made. Crawford, apparently feeling that Duncan had showed him up, teed [...]