NBA announces Finals referees
Of course Scott Foster is on the list
The NBA just announced the referees for the NBA Finals. The first instagram comments in response include:
“Tony brothers should not be allowed in playoffs or finals”
“All them are 🗑️”
“I see Scott Foster and Tony Brother there.... Already tilted”
“Ref’Mafia!!!!!!!”
“2 shots for Brunson”
So it’s going well.
As we wrote on TrueHoop recently, a dozen of the 16 Finals referees received the highest-possible rating from the Players Association in a recent survey of all players. The exceptions are:
Tyler Ford and John Goble were voted in the lowest of the three tiers.
The NBA referee who has called the most Finals games, Scott Foster, ended up in the middle tier, along with alternate Justin Van Dyne.
The Players Association says they shared their findings with the league before the playoffs, along with the recommendation that the league only assign Tier 1 referees to the Finals.
But boy does the league ever love that Scott Foster! Of course he’d get the call …
What’s interesting to me, and perhaps this…
