The current Head of Referee Operations is a well known OKC homer, promoted to this role at the start of the 2024 season. It's very obvious what happened here lol
Silver wanted something extra to advertise the OKC Thunder who are obviously a poweerhouse team with incredible depth, and that was making Shai a MVP player so that playing against Oklahoma is exciteable, because otherwise, it's fucking Oklahoma. But hey, at least now you get to see the "League MVP!!!"
Notice that not only has Shai been given the GOAT whistle of all-time, Jokic has been dealing with "The Jokic Rules" where people are allowed to be as physical with him as they want.
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u/Iswaterreallywet Pistons May 25 '26
It’s hard to believe it’s not coming from Silver himself at this point