The Toronto Raptors’ ongoing frustration with NBA officiating came to a head Wednesday when guard Fred VanVleet unleashed a profanity-laced rant following a 108-100 road loss to the Los Angeles Clippers.
that Barnes had been ejected for using “verbiage that which directly questioned the integrity of the crew.”“Ben Taylor was f---ing terrible tonight,” VanVleet said. “On most nights, out of the three [referees], there’s one or two that just f--- the game up. It’s been like that a couple games in a row. Denver was tough, obviously. You come out tonight, competing pretty hard, and in the third quarter I get a b---s--- tech.
According to VanVleet, he received his technical foul on Wednesday because he was instructing his teammates not to get too wrapped up in disputing calls.“If I say to my team, ‘Come on guys, let’s keep playing through the b---s---’ and that warrants a tech, I think that’s a little bit crazy,” VanVleet said.
VanVleet, 29, finished with 13 points on 4-for-12 shooting, four rebounds and nine assists in 39 minutes against the Clippers. Los Angeles attempted 31 free throws to Toronto’s 14, a “huge disparity” that “was the difference tonight,” according to VanVleet, whose wide-reaching criticisms and repeated use of profanities are sure to draw discipline from the league office.
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