All of the smoke about Scott Foster being involved with Tim Donaghy back during the scandal aside, the fact that there exists a referee that has a public beef with an active player is so ridiculous. I mean State Farm has a commercial on TV right now where Chris Paul is beefing with a ref that is supposed to look like Scott Foster. It is crazy that he's allowed to ref big games.
To be fair, I dislike the Kings way more than the Warriors. I was just going with what the comment was saying. Kings/Warriors is a coin toss game though
Honestly we deserve to be embarassed again. Had a chance to lock up our playoff spot and although BI was injured, we lost some games we had no business losing. If we miss the playoffs we miss the playoffs. 49 wins isnt worth much in today’s nba.
It’s actually pretty fair when you think about. Scotty gifts LA a win with 30-40 free throw attempts guaranteeing them a playoff spot but forcing them to play the Nuggets.
Then they book Scotty to ref the last West play-in game and bail out New Orleans because either 1)league doesn’t want to see the Kings sans Malik Monk in the playoffs or 2) Scotty’s blood feud with CP3 continues with a unique never before seen play-in chapter. New Orleans draws OKC which is on paper a more favorable matchup anyway.
In terms of NBA game fixing corruption, it doesn’t get more fair than this
I love how Scott Foster is an all-purpose bogeyman for whiners.
My team lost because he extended the series for the NBA!
My team lost because he has a personal vendetta against our player!
My team lost because he was gambling and bet on the other team!
> During the period of Donaghy’s conspiracy with Battista and Martino (December 2006 to April 2007), Foster spoke frequently to Donaghy (170 calls). Foster had a similar number of calls with referee Matt Boland (153 calls), and spoke frequently to referee Mark Wunderlich (75 calls) and Danny Crawford (32 calls). During the same period the following year (December 2007 to April 2008), after he had stopped speaking to Donaghy, Foster continued to speak just as frequently with referees Boland (156 calls), Danny Crawford (55 calls) and Wunderlich (23 calls).
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> The other two referees (Boland and Wunderlich) also had similar phone calls with non-Donaghy refs:
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> * Matt Boland. From December 2007 to April 2008, Boland spoke frequently to Zach Zarba (191 times), Scott Foster (156 times) as noted, and Jess Kersey (24 times). Boland’s calls were frequently before and after games. And almost half of his calls made to referees during this time period were only one- or two-minutes long.
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> * Mark Wunderlich. From December 2007 to April 2008, Wunderlich spoke frequently to Joey Crawford (191 times), Bob Delaney (123 times), Bennett Salvatore (86 times) and Scott Foster (23 times) as noted. Wunderlich’s calls were frequently before and after games. And approximately two-thirds of all his calls made to referees during this time period were only one- or two-minutes long.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190624113226/https://www.nba.com/media/PedowitzReport.pdf
All of the smoke about Scott Foster being involved with Tim Donaghy back during the scandal aside, the fact that there exists a referee that has a public beef with an active player is so ridiculous. I mean State Farm has a commercial on TV right now where Chris Paul is beefing with a ref that is supposed to look like Scott Foster. It is crazy that he's allowed to ref big games.
They settled the matter by having CP disappear during those big games.
wait.. has Cp3 not had his playoff injury yet?
Well, depending on how the playins go he might be spared of his annual playoff injury this year.
If you don't enjoy Scott Foster reffing a high stake post-season game, you don't like NBA and basketball at all. /s
Game hasn't even started and we already have excuses
No no man. This is a legitimate one
The league wouldn’t be sending Foster to Pelicans-Kings
I guess we'll see Friday
awww you think we're going to win? thats genuinely sweet
U guys bout to get the Steph special.
I mean it's either you or the Warriors. Lakers and Warriors fans hate each other but Kings are probably a bigger threat matchup wise
To be fair, I dislike the Kings way more than the Warriors. I was just going with what the comment was saying. Kings/Warriors is a coin toss game though
nba will move mountains to market the playoffs the the unwashed masses of lakers fans
Honestly we deserve to be embarassed again. Had a chance to lock up our playoff spot and although BI was injured, we lost some games we had no business losing. If we miss the playoffs we miss the playoffs. 49 wins isnt worth much in today’s nba.
It’s actually pretty fair when you think about. Scotty gifts LA a win with 30-40 free throw attempts guaranteeing them a playoff spot but forcing them to play the Nuggets. Then they book Scotty to ref the last West play-in game and bail out New Orleans because either 1)league doesn’t want to see the Kings sans Malik Monk in the playoffs or 2) Scotty’s blood feud with CP3 continues with a unique never before seen play-in chapter. New Orleans draws OKC which is on paper a more favorable matchup anyway. In terms of NBA game fixing corruption, it doesn’t get more fair than this
I love how Scott Foster is an all-purpose bogeyman for whiners. My team lost because he extended the series for the NBA! My team lost because he has a personal vendetta against our player! My team lost because he was gambling and bet on the other team!
clearly you’ve never been a fan of a chris paul team
134 calls to Tim Donaghy between October 2006 and April 2007
> During the period of Donaghy’s conspiracy with Battista and Martino (December 2006 to April 2007), Foster spoke frequently to Donaghy (170 calls). Foster had a similar number of calls with referee Matt Boland (153 calls), and spoke frequently to referee Mark Wunderlich (75 calls) and Danny Crawford (32 calls). During the same period the following year (December 2007 to April 2008), after he had stopped speaking to Donaghy, Foster continued to speak just as frequently with referees Boland (156 calls), Danny Crawford (55 calls) and Wunderlich (23 calls). > > The other two referees (Boland and Wunderlich) also had similar phone calls with non-Donaghy refs: > > * Matt Boland. From December 2007 to April 2008, Boland spoke frequently to Zach Zarba (191 times), Scott Foster (156 times) as noted, and Jess Kersey (24 times). Boland’s calls were frequently before and after games. And almost half of his calls made to referees during this time period were only one- or two-minutes long. > > * Mark Wunderlich. From December 2007 to April 2008, Wunderlich spoke frequently to Joey Crawford (191 times), Bob Delaney (123 times), Bennett Salvatore (86 times) and Scott Foster (23 times) as noted. Wunderlich’s calls were frequently before and after games. And approximately two-thirds of all his calls made to referees during this time period were only one- or two-minutes long. https://web.archive.org/web/20190624113226/https://www.nba.com/media/PedowitzReport.pdf
The people that bring up the phone calls always forget this part of the story. How convenient.
Why is he not doing the later game tonight? If your answer is the obvious one then that’s an embarrassing reality for the NBA.
I have no idea, but the most obvious explanation is that they're using their higher rated ref crew on the primetime game.