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why are there penalties for criticizing the refs after the game?
i mean i know it is disruptive to the game as it is happening, but publicly criticizing refs isnt wrong. i mean if the refs are wrong maybe people should know about it so that in the future refs make less mistakes. isnt this going to further allow refs to make bias calls?
ENZERU i am not saying they dont know the rules but there have been many times where officials will make bad calls, and even in the replays you can see it is a bad call, and there has been an instance where one official has been a part of a mafia and made bad calls to get a game in his favor, and there are officials making bad calls because they dont or do like players, my point is that if they are held responsable for their actions then they will be less likely to repeat them, im not saying they're incompetent
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
well i agree with you.. but the people in charge does not want the leagues reputation to go down the drain. If everyone thinks the refs are bad that it will look bad on the league and people would not want to watch a sport where teams win based on the refs.. its all about making money and making the league look good.
- 1 decade ago
It is because the NBA is even more sensitive about criticism of officials ever since the Tim Donaghy bit from a few years back. The league doesn't want an image where everybody hates the refs and everything bad can be attributed to officials. Players and coaches need to take responsibility (atleast some of the time)
- baudkarmaLv 71 decade ago
If there weren't penalties, then every post-game press conference would consist of nothing but players and coaches criticizing the referees for every single call they thought was wrong. That sort of non-stop complaining would badly hurt the image of the NBA.
Complaints don't have to be public to be effective. An email sent directly to the leagues director of officiating would get the call reviewed and possibly an explanation, along with the ref being reprimanded if it was a really bad call.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
U don F**** with the Mafia
Source(s): see Tim Donahey - 1 decade ago
oh yeah because you obviously know all the rules when the people who are trained to know them don't. [/sarcasm]
