Mark Cuban criticizes officiating following loss to Hawks
Mavs owner lashes out on Twitter towards NBA referees.
Mark Cuban went on Twitter to criticize the level of NBA officiating following the Dallas Mavericks’ 111-107 loss to the Atlanta Hawks. Mavs owner was upset by a play late in the game in which John Collins putback Dorian Finney-Smith’s block shot: the initial goal-tending call on Finney-Smith was overturned after a review, though the refs counted Collins’ shot due to an “inadvertent” whistle.
“So they call a goaltend. They literally blew the whistle that it was a goaltend. There was a putback after the whistle. After review they said no goaltend but count the basket? WTF is that? That’s NBA officiating,” Cuban tweeted.
Cuban then criticized the system for producing what he perceived as “incompetent” officials for two decades: "Refs have bad games. Crews have bad games. But this isn’t a single game issue. This is the same s— that has been going on for 20 years. Hire former refs who think they know how to hire, train and manage. Realize 2 years later they can’t. Repeat.”