Knicks exhibition delayed by Maccabi Coach
October 19, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under NBA Basketball, New York Knicks
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
The New York Knicks seem to get into all kinds of bizarre situations even in an exhibition game. This time the New York Knicks were involved in drawing out the worst in the replacement referees. If there is a worst at this point. David Stern has to do something about these guys. These guys being the replacement referees. There is something to be said for experience.
Knicks 106 Tel Aviv 91
high flying Nate Robinson had 19 points
In the third quarter the replacement referees called two technical fouls on the coach from Maccabi, Pini Gershon.
The game was halted for about eight minutes when Pini Gershon continued to linger near Maccabi’s bench — a delay that included a rabbi trying to intervene by asking the NBA’s replacement referees calling the game to allow Gershon to stay.
“I explained that this is not a regular game and the kids are watching and (it’s) important that there will be peace and forgive him,” Rabbi Yitchak Dovid Grossman said of his discussions with the officials. “If you forgive him, I can speak to the children and say, ‘You also forgive. If you have a fight, you forgive.’ But he says this is the law, that you must obey.”
It is like an every day event now for the replacement referees to mess something up. Pay the regular referees and get them back.
NBA factoid: As a side note, former Michigan State Spartan Allan Anderson had 20 points for Maccabi Tel Aviv. Anderson enjoyed an impossible weekend while in college playing for Tom Izzo. He defeated Kentucky and Duke in the NCAA playoffs in one weekend, injuring his knee at the end of the Duke game. The next weekend Anderson faced North Carolina and just could not go on the knee. Now he is fighting to get to the NBA and with luck he will make it.
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how did the replacement referees mess this up?
see this link to answer your question
http://www.everyjoe.com/nbaobsessed/nba-referees-please-come-back/