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IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant's Rant: 1-31-23 Sports Officials

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT WITH GRANT NAPEAR

Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

4.7944 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

It was not a good weekend for refs in the NBA and NFL. The NBA refs missed a clear foul at the end of the Lakers and Celtics game and the NFL Championship games were poorly officiated. NBA refs are getting killed for putting out a tweet after the missed call that would of sent Lebron James to the line with no time remaining. You can argue all you want about whether the tweet was right, or wrong, but you can't debate the content of the tweet! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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To say the least, it was not a good weekend

0:26.3

for our professional sports officials.

0:29.0

We saw it in the NFL in both championship games

0:32.2

and of course the horrible no-call at the end of the

0:35.9

Lakers Celtics game when Jason Tatum clearly fouled LeBron James on a layup

0:41.4

attempt that would have sent LeBron to the game with no time remaining

0:45.1

and if he makes one free throw the Lakers would win but instead they lost

0:49.2

in overtime due to a non-call. Now I have talked about this a lot this year. It has not been a good year

0:56.2

in my opinion for the NBA officials. They have made way too many mistakes

0:59.8

particularly at the end of games.

1:02.6

And they are getting hammered for their Twitter account

1:05.5

at official NBA refs when they put out after the game

1:09.5

like everyone else, referees make mistakes.

1:12.8

We made one at the end of last night's game,

1:15.5

and that is gut-wrenching for us.

1:17.6

This play will weigh heavily and cause sleepless nights

1:20.7

as we strive to be the best referees we can be. Now a lot of people had a problem

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