Referee storm: The whirlpool behind the Pacers tiebreak battle

In the NBA field, the players should have competed with their strength, but now the Pacers are trapped in huge controversy related to the referees, and even believe that the referees have become their biggest obstacle to winning the championship.

The main person in charge of the NBA who decides the referee is the basketball operation department, and president Adam Xiaohua and other league executives have absolute voice. And when the Pacers learned that the referee in the tiebreak battle was Foster, the entire team was in a blast. All members of the Pacers protested publicly and filed complaints to the coalition. The Pacers boss even spoke directly with the league president Xiao Hua and demanded to replace Foster with a tough attitude. Player Halliburton also stood up to express his dissatisfaction and bluntly said that letting Foster play is equivalent to helping the Thunder. The Pacers even made harsh words, and if the referee is not replaced, they will refuse to play in the tiebreak. Why are the Pacers and fans so disgusted and sensitive to Foster? It turned out that in the playoffs Foster's referee game this season, the Pacers suffered a bleak record of 0 wins and 5 losses, while the Thunder maintained a 4-game victory. Such data comparison makes the Pacers firmly believe that Foster is a stumbling block on their way to winning the championship.

But Xiao Hua, even though he knew that the Pacers had protested, he kept ignoring it and insisted on letting Foster enforce the law and tiebreak the seventh battle. This kind of behavior inevitably makes people wonder whether there are ugly behaviors of manipulating the game.

In my opinion, fairness and justice in sports events are crucial. The referee should be the guardian of the fairness of the game, not the uncertainty that affects the results of the game. If the league really manipulates the game, it will undoubtedly be a huge harm to the fans and players, and will also greatly reduce the credibility of the NBA. Hopefully the league can attach importance to the Pacers' protests and give a reasonable explanation and handling method to return the game to a purely competitive level.