Yeah lol he was frustrating the hell out of me the first several games of the season with the stuff he wouldn’t challenge in games only to later challenge something that was not only 50/50 at best but were largely not all that important to challenge given the game context at the time lol it was grating. But, he goes and gets a lot better at actually challenging the obvious, egregious calls over the last week or two only to repeatedly lose them lol.

It’s kind of made me more understanding of his frequently frustrating will he or won’t he challenge decisions, because after the series of challenges above, I was resigned to the Warriors never winning another challenge this season lol because if those don’t get overturned then I don’t know how anything does

Lol for context, these are all challenges and/or official reviews (the Podz one was an official review) they’ve lost/where the call was inexplicably upheld within the span of 4 games within the last week or so:

• Draymond committing a “shooting foul” on Gobert aka Gobert actually committing on over the back foul on Draymond
• Podz committing an “away from the play foul” on Shai aka Kenrich Williams running into Shai’s back of his own accord while Podz commits the grave mistake of just being in the vicinity
• Wiggs called for a “blocking foul” aka Shai pushing off Wiggs, flying back, then kicking Wiggs in the nuts

“I’m crushed.”

-KG as he looks away disgusted and in disbelief. 💀

He was every Warriors fan last season in that moment lol felt that one

I don’t get how leagues have CBAs with officials that require them to keep clearly incompetent officials.

The more egregious part is that they don’t, actually. The CBA they have with the refs assoc specifically lays out that the NBA has the sole authority to dismiss officials that they find don’t meet the standards and score below a certain threshold on end of season evaluations. There is absolutely an avenue to get rid of incompetent officials, the league just chooses not to.

Not exactly the stat you were looking for in that it’s not counting just games he was favored in but CP’s playoff teams are 70-54 (.564 win percentage) in games Foster isn’t part of the game crew.

I wish there there was an ejection cam where we got a livestream of the players/coaches that get ejected watching the game from the locker room. I feel Iike it’d be so entertaining. This from Malone just convinced me even more it’s what we, as fans, deserve.

The first I thought of it was after Klay and Draymond got ejected at the start of the Minny game and how hysterical the dynamic of those two watching the game together in the locker room had to have been lol. Klay probably pacing around the locker room muttering to himself the whole time while Draymond stood like 6 inches away from the tv just shouting directions to the players as if he can coach them up like he does when he’s on the court through the screen 😭

I wish there there was an ejection cam where we got a livestream of the players/coaches that get ejected watching the game from the locker room. I feel Iike it’d be so entertaining. This from Malone just convinced me even more it’s what we, as fans, deserve.

The first I thought of it was after Klay and Draymond got ejected at the start of the Minny game and how hysterical the dynamic of those two watching the game together in the locker room had to have been lol. Klay probably pacing around the locker room muttering to himself the whole time while Draymond stood like 6 inches away from the tv just shouting directions to the players as if he can coach them up like he does when he’s on the court through the screen 😭

1000% and all of the powers that be who could have taken steps to prevent it from happening (who, of course, are also the people responsible for the lighting match that set the whole tinderbox of it all off) will respond in a we’re all looking for the guy who did this hot dog meme kind of way. It’s the tried and true life cycle in the exploitative capitalism playbook.

His ex-girlfriend lives in that city. I’d say I hope she never sees this, but I know with the internet that’ll be nearly impossible. My heartbreaks for her. I can’t imagine what it would feel like to see that many people from the city you live in cheer for the person who put you and your children through what he did (for those who want to respond with innocent until proven guilty, he pled no contest to beating her in front of their kids…that’s tantamount to him saying I’m not saying I did do it, but I’m also not saying I didn’t, so get outta here with that). And because they have kids together and still share custody, she can’t move elsewhere. What a lonely feeling that must be.

Oooh that’s Gediminas Petraitis. He HATES Steph and officiates him as such, which eventually led to Steph infamously T’ing him up lol if that doesn’t tell you all you need to know about how miserable of a person he is then I don’t know what does. He’s the perfect example of what a ref that holds personal grudges against players and takes everything personally looks like. Just the absolute worst.

Lol this just made me a Mazzulla fan

So much for that anti-flopping rule lol

Anyone remember that Nuggets game last season that had like a 45 min or something break in the middle of the game because one of the players made the rim crooked after hanging on it? Things like that are likely the primary reason why they give these out.

That game did produce some of the most entertaining killing time commentary by the Nuggets broadcasters though lol

ESPN calling it the NBA Power Index makes it unnecessarily confusing and makes it easy to confuse it as one and the same as the power rankings the NBA itself puts out but it’s not. The NBA’s own power rankings this week are so completely different for a vast majority of the teams that you’d think these lists were from completely separate seasons, much less the same week of the same season lol. NBA’s power rankings this week are below with ESPN’s ranking for the teams from the above list in parentheses:

1. Nuggets (6)
2. Celtics (1)
3. Suns (12)
4. Warriors (7)
5. Bucks (2)
6. Sixers (3)
7. Kings (13)
8. Lakers (11)
9. Pels (18)
10. Clippers (5)
11. Mavs (15)
12. OKC (19)
13. Cavs (4)
14. Pacers (17)
15. Knicks (16)
16. Wolves (9)
17. Hawks (8)
18. Heat (10)
19. Magic (21)
20. Raptors (20)
21. Piston (28)
22. Nets (14)
23. Bulls (22)
24. Jazz (24)
25. Wizards (25)
26. Grizzlies (23)
27. Hornets (26)
28. Spurs (30)
29. Rockets (27)
30. Blazers (29)

He’s going to follow in Andre’s footsteps, mark my words. He’s developed elite instincts and with that 7’1” wingspan he’s going to wreak havoc

From the article - ESPN re: video: “We occasionally look to connect sports moments of the past with contemporary imagery and storylines as part of our social content. While it was never our intention to misrepresent anything for fans, we completely recognize how this instance caused confusion.”

Lol

Kevon Looney. That is all.

That feels like a loaded question to ask in a quick post-commercial break segment lol

Lol ohh no not Embiid accidentally taking out PJ

The trend where some city edition jerseys are in any and all colors but the team’s actual colors has got to stop. Jerseys are meant to be used to display a team’s brand so as to make them easily identifiable. Having them wear jerseys that are entirely non-team colors - or worse another team’s colors - runs completely counter to that. If you’re at a bar or restaurant and quickly glance at the TV with a game on that has the Kings playing in these jerseys, you wouldn’t be able to easily and quickly pick up that it was the Kings playing, in fact you’d probably think it was the Sixers.