{"id":489512,"date":"2026-03-24T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=489512"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T07:45:41","slug":"ime-udoka-blasts-officiating-after-rockets-loss-to-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/ime-udoka-blasts-officiating-after-rockets-loss-to-bulls\/","title":{"rendered":"Ime Udoka blasts officiating after Rockets\u2019 loss to Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"4855\" data-end=\"5020\">Ime Udoka strongly criticized the officiating after Houston\u2019s loss to the Bulls. The Rockets coach was ejected late in the game after picking up two technical fouls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ime Udoka said Rockets disrespected da game in failed comeback vs Bulls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m833th891V\">pic.twitter.com\/m833th891V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Goodymo Da Warden (@Goodymo17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Goodymo17\/status\/2036321869716975967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5022\" data-end=\"5195\">Afterward, Udoka called both the flagrant foul on Amen Thompson and the technicals against him \u201csoft.\u201d At the same time, he also blamed his team\u2019s poor start for the defeat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"5197\" data-end=\"5354\">Houston allowed 41 first-quarter points and paid for a weak opening stretch. The loss dropped the Rockets to sixth place in the Western Conference standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston coach called several decisions \u201csoft\u201d after being ejected late in the game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":377622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-489512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/03\/Houston-Rockets.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489512"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=489512"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=489512"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=489512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}