NBA refs are a joke. That is the only word for it. They are just plain bad. They can make all the excuses they want about how big and strong NBA players are and how difficult it is to officiate them, but the fact remains: they are a joke.
Each and every game that you watch, you see incompetence so many times that it is not funny. I have reffed before. I know it is difficult. The game of basketball is fast, the action is continuous and you have to not only be aware of what the rules are but you must have a feel for the game, which comes with an understanding of what is happening in a lightening fast manner. But these sons of bitches are supposedly the best in the world. They work with the best players in the world. Instead they are fucking clowns.
NBA officials seem to have predetermined ideas of what is going to happen and make the call whether or not it really happens that way or not. Officials are instructed over and over again not to anticipate something happening. Hustle to get into the best position and call what you SEE, not what you think is going to happen. NBA officials might as well close their eyes and just call a foul on the lesser of the two stars that are involved. They could be sitting on the sidelines, having nachos ad beer and make most of the calls involved. They decide what is going to happen, and just make stupid call, after stupid call. I am amazed that someone in the NBA hasn't punched some refs lights out. The frustration just watching these fucking guys is hard to take, let alone if you playing hard and getting screwed because the person you are guarding is a bigger star than you.
And the arrogance. Take someone like Joey Crawford. How he has lived to the age he is, without getting killed by a seven foot adonis, is beyond me. The NBA recently had a big scandal when one of there officials was caught fixing games for his financial benefit, but the fucking refs determine the outcomes of almost each and every game. Their predetermining who and who isn't going to get calls, and that decide games every night. The best players get the calls. The young players don't get the calls and get the fouls called against them. If the play involved others than a superstar, the best player gets the call. How fucking frustrating is that? I watch time and time again a young player getting screwed defensively by calls made automatically against them, even when they are not really occurring.
How many times, at crucial times of the game and a foul is called that might foul out a star player; suddenly have the foul called on a lesser important player who happened to be standing nearby, usually doing nothing? That's and oldie but a goody of the NBA refs. 'Fans want to see the stars', say the paid announcers. Well isn't that fucking wonderful? Coaches and players work their assess off to beat teams with superstars and then when they have succeeded in getting the star to foul out, he is rescued by the incompetent official. How is that either fair or correct?
Make up calls are another NBA official's favorite things. I fucked up down there, so not I will fuck up here to even it out. Isn't that great? Just what players and coaches want: consistency. Everyone knows the refs do it but they just arrogantly run down the floor with at smug, shit-eating look on their faces and keep going like nothing has happened. It is fucking infuriating.
As most of you know, I have some issue with basketball officials. Always have, always will have. Coaches and players work very hard to play at a certain level, always striving for the perfect game. And then all of your hard work and effort can be pissed away with the single act of some fucking incompetent, moron blowing his whistle and making a horrible game altering call. NBA games involve millions and millions of dollars, both in gambling and the high priced players and coaches involved. The quality of the officiating should reflect the important part that the refs play in each and every game. Instead you have bumbling idiots making up call after call so that the stars can be stars and the game's outcome is determined by the three stooges with whistles.
NBA refs should be the best of the best. Better than NCAA referees. Better than international referees. Better than anyone. There is no fucking way that the NBA officials are the best. Dick Fucking Bavetta is about a thousand years old and he still regularly working in the NBA. How can a 73 year old man officiate a game in which LaBron James is running up and down the court? And he still does playoff games. That is a joke. Just like the rest.
To show you how deeply I believe in that I say about basketball officials, MDW has ok'ed me putting the following on my tombstone:
"I told you those refs were killing me"!
Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas
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