NBA Referees' Bias: A Personal Influence in Games?

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00:03 The NBA, the officials, like I said,

00:07 I don't think Adam Silver's telling them,

00:09 yeah, you know, make sure the Pacers don't win.

00:11 Maybe they got caught up in the garden.

00:13 Maybe they got caught up with the home crowd.

00:14 Maybe they don't like Carlisle, right?

00:17 Like there's these little dynamics and stuff,

00:18 but I think the NBA is the most personal,

00:22 which that's why, you know, you sort of question things

00:26 because anybody that really knows the true stories

00:28 behind the scenes about how personal it actually is

00:31 with referees in the NBA.

00:32 You know, that's why Nick Nurse didn't get the calls.

00:36 So I don't think, oh, the fix was in,

00:38 they wanted the Sixers to lose.

00:39 I don't think they like Nick Nurse.

00:42 I know they don't like Nick Nurse.

00:43 He was a long time coach of the Trotting Raptors.

00:45 Raptors never got a call.

00:47 And not only did they not get calls,

00:49 the other teams would get calls.

00:50 And you saw it with the Philadelphia 76ers.

00:53 Now the league admitted after,

00:54 yeah, she should have got a timeout.

00:55 He called timeout.

00:56 But the referees ignored him.

00:57 Why was that?

00:59 Was it because they love New York?

01:00 Is it because they don't like Nick Nurse?

01:02 Right, so there's reasons.

01:05 There's not always like, oh, they want New York to win

01:07 because of television ratings.

01:09 Although they do want New York to win

01:12 because of television ratings.

01:13 Although they do.

01:15 Although we all know the deal, man, right?

01:17 They bring in the hit man, ref, this ref and that ref.

01:21 And they're like,

01:22 "I'm gonna go get a ref."

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