Celtics coach Doc Rivers was fined $25,000 by the NBA today for publicly criticizing referee Bill Kennedy after a loss to Chicago last Tuesday. The penalty was determined by Stu Jackson. Referee Billy Kennedy was also fined an undisclosed amount for his conduct with Rivers at the end of the game, according to an NBA source. Neither was suspended any games.
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Stu Jackson needs to be fired. The NBA expects us to believe they reformed after the Donaghy controversy but then protect the refs in such a blatant terrible manner?
What on God's green earth makes you think they expect that? The star bias is way more glaring than in the Donaghy era and the officiating is glaringly worse.
Donaghy at least had a reason for acting like a blind mouse.
by iowa plowboy on Mar 19, 2009 10:25 PM EDT up reply actions
If they are claiming new transparency in officiating...
Why can’t they just tell us what the amount is? Why can’t they give a specific explanation of what went wrong? How they they expect to get their credibility back?
Big brother no longer needs to watch, because the world is convinced he is.
What a joke!
What is this, communism? If a ref is criticized we fine them even if they completely deserve it? Geez NBA you are unbelievable.
Seems fair to me...
Doc was fined for breaking the rules (no bad words about the officiating) and Bill Kennedy was fined for being an unprofessional punk.
by SalmonAndMashedPotatoes on Mar 19, 2009 9:45 PM EDT reply actions
I guess this is the best we could expect....
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if NBA referee discipline was public and everyone was held to the same expectations? A ref getting out of line is worse than a coach getting out of line. It would be like one side of the court being longer than the other. It’s supposed to be an unnoticed part of the game but somehow these refs get away with starting so many pissing contests. This isn’t baseball for Christ’s sake.
Not Right
If they fined the Ref it means he was wrong. That should mean Doc was right. I know there is a rule against speaking out against the Refs so if they felt they needed to enforce that they should have fined Doc $1.00
"I don't come to play, I come to WIN"--Larry Bird
$25000 is like a dollar to somebody making $5m
by iowa plowboy on Mar 19, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah but it's not like you have 25 grand sitting around just for kicks
it’s not exactly chump change. Even so, it’s more of a hassle for Doc than it is a financial thing.
by scurvmeister on Mar 19, 2009 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions
It's Really The Principle Of The Thing
NBA officiating is terrible. It is inconsistent and many officials just show poor judgment in handling game situations (not individual calls). This was a perfect example of where the ref should have just walked away. The NBA has shown no indication that it will do anything about this. Doc did nothing that should have earned him a tech, especially in a situation like that time of that game. It’s gotten so bad that Mike Gorman commented on the terrific jobs the officials did in a game, maybe Memphis, a few days ago. He didn’t have to do that, but the great job the officials did stood out so much that he did comment on it. It really should be the other way around. There shouldn’t be so much talk about officiating. I think everyone understands mistakes are made. But there should be consistency every game, which there isn’t, and sometimes an official needs to show a little common sense. I know I see things thru green glasses, but it seems like this year there have been more times where the refs have cost the C’s a game or at least the chance to win it by playing it out. The Miami game regulation time ended with Perk getting a call for a foul on Chalmers. To me it was not a foul. Perk played great defense and made the guy alter his shot and he missed. Even if it were truly a foul, it was so negligible that it shouldn’t have been called. It worked out okay, but it could have cost us that game. The officials need to have the sense to let the players determine who wins.
"I don't come to play, I come to WIN"--Larry Bird
the nba is a joke
david stern helped save the league (along with a couple of guys named bird and magic), but he’s also helped destroy it with this ref thing. its been going on for many years now…you criticize the refs for doing a terrible job, you get fined. stars get way too many calls. and the playoffs…my god…talk about a travesty. the shame of it is, i can’t begin to tell you how many of my friends don’t follow basketball anymore because they can’t take the clear nonsense in terms of the referees. i can think of 5 off the top of my head who just stopped following the nba during the calamity that was the 2008 playoffs. they’re just killing their product.
Referee Statistics
they mentioned on TrueHoop on ESPN recently how referees affect teams points per 100 possessions and also referee statistics in general.
the theory was inspired by Mark Cuban. he reckons there are 13 players on the court that have to be accounted for and I tend to agree with him.
whether the NBA uses stats for each referee as an evaulation technique, i don’t know, but it sure would be good to know which referee awards more free throws, calls more technicals and makes key judgments in the final 2 minutes of a game.
by Ruben Wolkowyski on Mar 20, 2009 3:22 AM EDT reply actions
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