NBA referees aren’t tacking any flack this season.
Washington Wizards point guard Isaiah Thomas was recently ejected for the second time in 2019-20. Taurean Prince received a technical foul at the end of the Houston Rockets game when he and Russell Westbrook chirped one another. The Rockets guard ejected for his part.
Spencer Dinwiddie wasn’t ejected from Brooklyn’s tilt on Monday, but he was teched up for the fourth time this season. He’s second on the team in techs, trailing only Prince (five).
Dinwiddie explained why he was handed with the technical, telling reporters in Orlando he simply pointed out Magic big man Nikola Vucevic hit him in the face.
Doesn’t seem like a good reason to T-up a player.
Dinwiddie didn’t think so either, but this isn’t something new for him. Not in the vacuum of this season, at least:
A lot of my techs this year have not come with cuss words, have not come with anything. It’s been ‘What?’ or ‘He hit me in the face!’ or ‘Are you Serious?’ It’s been stuff like that and I get technical fouls. I don’t know if they’re appealed, I’m assuming they take it out [of] the check or whatever. I’ll talk to my business managers about that and I’ll talk to the players association about appealing it. Hopefully, get some money back. But, at the end of the day, if people are hurt by me saying ‘He hit me in the face!’ when he hit me in the face … I didn’t personally attack him. You can look at the replay and see, I drove and euro’d, he hit me in the face. Obviously, I wasn’t happy because he hit me in the face.
.@SDinwiddie_25 explains his side of things after a first-half technical foul: "Obviously I wasn't happy, because he hit me in the face." pic.twitter.com/DmqFLol1S9
— YES Network (@YESNetwork) January 7, 2020
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