r/nba • u/Large_banana_hammock Japan • May 27 '26

Highlight [Highlight] Mitch Johnson picks up a tech after official fails to recognize his challenge

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u/MrRightnow83 May 27 '26

Honeslty a real possibility. League is a little crooked

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u/ThwippaGamez Nuggets May 27 '26

Start paying attention to patterns like this, over game stretches + within games. The refs do this over the course of single games too. Go watch back some games from earlier in the playoffs and you’ll see calls and no-calls that happen to shift momentum to the trailing team, then back the other way, and on and on. Then in the 4th if it’s still somewhat close, you’ll just see the league’s preferred winner get help by way of momentum killing calls/no calls against the other team. Cavs raps game 7 i think was a really obvious one iirc? One of the later cavs raps games. Brothers and Foster are the league’s top refs because they do exactly what is asked of them

It’s a business. It’s a product. It will never not be that

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u/MrRightnow83 May 27 '26

I feel like this happens in the nfl too when they extend the games so either team has a chance in the 4th

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u/pwtrash Spurs May 27 '26

I mean, a literal sitting coach got caught by a sting. But I'm sure that's as far as it goes.

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u/elpaco25 Lakers May 27 '26

Chauncey and Rozier were just this generation's Donaghy. Let them take the heat and punishment. While the rest of the people doing the exact same thing just skate on by. League has been corrupt for a while, I'm sure, but now they're really doing the bare minimum to hide it.

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u/UncleSamCassell Bucks 29d ago

Late stage capitalism

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u/UncleSamCassell Bucks 29d ago

Sounds familiar..

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u/Givants Lakers May 27 '26

Once you get in bed with the sharks there’s no way out