Oh, Brothers: Utah Jazz Coach Will Hardy Was About To Murder NBA Ref Tony Brothers Last Night
In a 116-111 loss to Portland, Brothers no-call of an obvious Flagrant-1 foul on Jordan Clarkson sent Hardy to the moon in anger and earned the Jazz coach his first tech, but is there more to this?
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Oh, Brothers: Utah Jazz coach Will Hardy Was About To Murder NBA Ref Tony Brothers Last Night.
In a 116-111 loss to Portland at Vivint Arena, Brothers no-call of an obvious Flagrant-1 foul on Jordan Clarkson as the Jazz star drove to the basket sent Hardy to the moon in anger and earned the Jazz coach his first tech, but is there more to this?
First: was Tony Brothers BLIND when he saw this foul? JC almost had his frigging arm pulled out of its socket!
Alas, this is NOT the only time that Brothers hasn't called anything and let the kids play like they were on some playground in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn or West Oakland.
In Basketball: Brothers is the equivalent of Ismael Elfath to Real Salt Lake fans in that he never CALLS any foul like the one that Clarkson suffered Saturday night.
But: when will this END, cried Jazz fans, to which Brothers probably replied, NEVER!--as he was alleged to have called another player on a different night, a MF!
Which of course SHOCKS those who might not have lived where Brothers and I and others did, where your street cred was something that followed you from your hood and reminded you every time you visited that you were always gonna be [insert embarassing nickname here] to your homies.
But: this aint home, dawg, and so Brothers was suspended for an entire GAME on Nov. 29 for THAT incident.
On this particular day: however, nothing was DONE about Brothers' no-call. Jazz coach Will Hardy was understandably livid at the fact that his star player [don’t at me; this is FACT] Clarkson just had his arm pulled down from its shelf like it was the last slab of prime rib ready to be devoured at some fine dining establishment. Besides, it isn't like Brothers is the worst NBA referee. In fact, according to this ratings Website he's merely No. 25! Oh, well, isn’t that great!! *eye roll*
So: the Jazz went on to take the L, 116-111, as Clarkson scored 24 points but shot 10-for-25 and 1-for-9 from behind the arc—no thanks to the amazing refereeing job Brothers did, in the game. It wasn't always in favor of the other team, though—Kelly Olynyk did throw a Portland player to the floor with 32 seconds left in the game.
For the other cities in the NBA, some of these gambler degenerates have even gone so far as to keep track of how often Brothers refs their games and how one-sided or not he might be.
Finally: I don’t care if the Celtics lose all 109 games that Brothers refs for them, but when he was officiating at Jazz games LAST year he had a 2-1 record. All-time, the Jazz DO have a 60.9 winning percentage when this guy is not allegedly calling some player on another team a b***ha** MF. So I don't know if I'd make a scene out of it though he DOES have a 91.2 winning percentage when reffing Portland Trail Blazers home games.
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