Ref fukkery in Toronto, extra security needed post game

[Doobie Doo]

TORONTO — What in the world went on down the stretch of Toronto’s 132-125 loss to Oklahoma City on Sunday?

It all started to unravel when Kyle Lowry earned his sixth foul on a questionable offensive push with a little over three minutes to go in a tie game with a franchise record-setting win streak on the line



With about 30 seconds left on the clock, the wheels really fell off.

Raptors star DeMar DeRozan drove down the middle of the key, put up the layup and everyone on the floor seemed to stop playing assuming the foul — but nothing was called. DeRozan was angry (like, really angry) and let the referee know it, picking up a technical in the process.

And by the sounds of it, the entire ACC agreed with him as loud boos filled the arena when the replay came up on the Jumbotron. It was the loudest and most engaged the fans were all game, and for obvious reasons: the refs missed a blatant foul.





DeRozan let the refs have it a few plays later, screaming “you’re trash” among other things to earn his second technical and an ejection from the game.

“You know the frustration, you know what it came down to,” said DeRozan. “It was obvious, especially at the end of the game.”

Then, moments after DeRozan left the floor and the game all but over, Toronto’s Serge Ibaka followed him into the locker room after being ejected himself. If you blinked, you missed his technical fouls altogether.

And just when you thought the chaos was over, Raptors coach Dwane Casey was ejected from the game as well. To make matters even more ridiculous, it was actually a fan who yelled out toward the ref, according to the broadcast. When the technical was called, the fan behind Casey even stood up before realizing Casey was being blamed for it. Casey and Lowry — and OKC’s Corey Brewer — couldn’t help but laugh, because what else can you do at that point?

Kyle Lowry, Dwane Casey and Corey Brewer react in amazement to Casey’s ejection. (Lucas Oleniuk/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

When asked in the postgame interview if it was him or a fan who yelled out, Casey simply repeated what he’d said a number of times before: “We will complain the right and proper way.”




Raptors' win streak ends in controversy and chaos

 

[King Poetic]

We was talking about it in the nba thread

That bald headed black ref was trippin

 

[GunRanger]

Mark Davis is awful

 

[MikelArteta]

the ref was acting like he was god out there

 

[Doobie Doo]

When Casey got ejected without saying nothing


Said it was a fan. I would love to smoke a roach blunt and go to a Clipper game imitating Doc Rivers.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

I love fukkery. Yes yes let the hate fill your souls

 

[OaklandCertified]

Wow

 

[Fenian]

Ref wasn't lucky he never caused an incident like this.

 

[Mr swag]

lowry should have got the foul

 

[killacal]

The league made that call

Mvp not making the playoffs is not the wave

Be sabo brehs

 

[seemorecizzy]

raps preparing to blame the refs and casey for their playoff failures

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

I knew Mark Davis was the culprit and I didn’t even see the game..

 

[Koapa]

That was a terrible screen by Lowry. Yes that was a foul on his part.

 

[CantStop]

That was a terrible screen by Lowry. Yes that was a foul on his part.

That happens every possession. Would Lebron get fouled out like that?

 

[Guess Who]

They didn’t show Lowry’s 5th foul where Westbrook drove and missed, shouted and 1, the ball was rebounded and the ref then blew the whistle. Ref wasn’t even looking at the play.