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NBA refs have some explaining to do.
During last night’s Jazz-Suns game Dragan Bender was called for traveling after a steal despite the fact that he was continuously dribbling up court and didn’t appear to travel at all.
Dragan Bender just got called for a travel… while dribbling the basketball.
— Jacob Padilla (@JacobPadilla_) April 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/WorldWideWob/status/1113657920460349443
The Internet was confused and called on for the official NBA refs twitter account to issue a response.
Whole Phx squad….the way all just stopped too.. pic.twitter.com/6uhCrPHFtd
— Derrick Matai (@derrickmatai) April 4, 2019
https://twitter.com/rbc12steps/status/1113658878254706689
https://twitter.com/dipulala/status/1113684961654136832
— David Trotter (@HomeRunTrott) April 4, 2019
Meanwhile in James Harden world… #MakingOfATraveler pic.twitter.com/dVnqZhlEnc
— Jonah King (@jonahgking) April 4, 2019
What’s funny is that refs have been pretty loose all season with their interpretations of what is and isn’t a travel these days.
The @OfficialNBARefs explain why this WAS NOT a travel by Bradley Beal… pic.twitter.com/n6LxFxAEUe
— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) February 12, 2019
1/2..Spoke to an NBA ref on this move “It isn’t a travel. It’s basically a plant foot plus 2 steps to his jump shot. The plant foot is nothing and the 1-2 step after is viewed as legal in the NBA. Bradley Beal,Butler,DeRozan all do the same move”. Cont’dpic.twitter.com/wYHDuHVNRb
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) April 16, 2018
It’s hard to care about the NBA these days with terrible calls like that.