Anthony Edwards: "I'ma eat the fine, FUKK them refs"

[Recca Gatsby]

This dude is easily my favorite player in the league.

Anthony Edwards fined $40K after saying Timberwolves were 'playing 8-on-5' in win vs. Thunder

Anthony Edwards let the referees have it after the game ended.

sports.yahoo.com

"The refs was bad tonight. Yeah, they was terrible," Edwards told ESPN after the game. "We was playing 8-on-5.

"The cat got their tongue tonight, so it's all good. It's not fair, but it's all good."

When the Timberwolves' in-house broadcast team pulled Edwards aside for its postgame interview, he continued with the same messaging and accepted the inevitable consequence of calling out the referees.

"I'm going to take the fine, because the refs did not give us no calls tonight," he said.

In another video after the victory, Edwards was heard saying the referees were cheating.

 

[SadimirPutin]

The NBA coddles its officials and that is why their standards are inexcusable...

Their is a reason why nba bettors factor in the official so much when placing wagers......you can call at least 8 refs many nba fans detest and know by name

 

[Lil Bape the PostGod]

Refs should get fined for every bad call they made

Bet they’d be more balanced then

 

[Rekkapryde]

Eddie Winslow the realest in the league

 

[MJ Truth]

This dude is easily my favorite player in the league.

Anthony Edwards fined $40K after saying Timberwolves were 'playing 8-on-5' in win vs. Thunder

Anthony Edwards let the referees have it after the game ended.

sports.yahoo.com

You seriously lack maturity if THIS is what makes someone your favorite player.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Misquote in the thread title

Only thing about this is these same refs gon ref your future games

 

[desjardins]

Ant need to chill, NBA fines made a billionaire fall back (Cuban)

 

[THE 101]

He still comes across as crazy immature...that whole Wolves team gonna meltdown come playoff time.

 

[RubioTheCruel]

Misquote in the thread title

Only thing about this is these same refs gon ref your future games

Yeah refs don't really like to be shown up and it's a fraternity. Good luck getting any 50/50 calls on the Wolves

 

[TheNig]

This is the second or third time he's gone at refs this week, I think.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

Yeah refs don't really like to be shown up and it's a fraternity. Good luck getting any 50/50 calls on the Wolves

Exactly. I’m not advocating kissing their asses or anything but just understand these are human beings and accusing them of cheating and saying they’re bad at their jobs may not have the desired outcome you’re seeking. Or keep that shyt up because you’re a division rival.

 

[We Ready]

This is the second or third time he's gone at refs this week, I think.

No, he's just posting from when it happened on Monday

 

[duncanthetall]

Y’all talking about the refs retaliating and shyt. You paying attention? We don’t get those fukking calls anyways and are still #1 in the west. Oh well.

 

[IIVI]

Dude may get the Scott Foster CP3 treatment.

shyt is absolutely ridiculous and dishonest to be 3-17 vs a ref during a play-off game.

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Betting conspiracies aside, the NBA does seem to coddle the refs and all these players/coaches routinely getting fined for calling them out only emphasizes how the refs seemingly don’t have any consequences for making bad calls.

At the absolute very most if a ref makes a bad call that decides the outcome of a game, the refs will put out a press release that just says “our bad y’all, we called a block when it should’ve been a charge. Oh well”


And obviously fans and athletes have had issues with refs since the dawn of sports, but these past few years we’ve seen some real egregious referee activity and a lot more public meltdowns by players and coaches after NBA games