I find those old, constipated types that only tune into the new NBA to pick and choose instances in which to glorify the old NBA to be nauseatingly annoying. The "basketball has gone soft" crowd conveniently likes to ignore the fact that league has far and away more talent and intrigue than it's ever had. Therefore, it would be much appreciated if the officiating stopped fanning the flames of the faultfinders by tossing around technicals like they are candy canes at Christmas time. I get that referees probably dedicated their lives to the authority side of sports because they grew up not being invited to parties and/or eating alone at lunch, but are they also all only children who spent their free time isolated in a soundproof room to work on their whistle blowing? Like, the only requirements needed to gain access to the "joke" of a 7 foot tall dude getting in a sibling rivalry-style pushing match is the most rudimentary sense of humor and the life experience of having interacted with friends and/or family. That harmless display between two professional athletes honestly might not have been enough to draw the ire of the strictest of parents in the quietest of church. The principle at a private school would strut his tight ass right on by if he saw that type of thing taking place in the hallway between periods. I don't think I'm asking for all that much in pleading for referees to use sense that's common to anyone and everyone that's ever taken a social cue, and that's all they would have needed to determine that DeAndre Jordan and Trae Young weren't about to come to blows over brotherly love.
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