Edit: **The foul was on Daniel Gafford and not Kyle Kuzma.**
**If you look at 0:13, it seems like the small touch by Gafford was really a soft one with his right hand at the back of Butler (Butler jumps into this). A VERY soft call.**
Heat Culture
Literally no contact and the ref was only a few feet away.
Refs just inventing fouls when there’s a crowd in the paint
Jimmy Buter easily has a top-5 whistle in the sport
WTF
Yet players get fined every time they publicly complain about the referees.
Referees across all sports rn make them so unfun to watch.
Refs warming up for the Heat playoff push
The thing that sucks about this is that it’s easy to say “eh just 2 FTs, it’s a long game”… except this can change a lot more. There’s the obvious stuff like if this puts an important player into early foul trouble, but then there’s the psychological aspect. The defense is basically being told to play even softer defense, and the offensive player is going to be even more confident in driving the next time (compared to a guy who misses near the rim and then settles for a jumper next time).
This call sucks
How to trick a ref in the NBA. 1. Jump and twist your body in an unnatural way. 2. ??????? 3. Profit (with free throws)
Is there any sport with worse officiating than basketball?
It’s so weird the players that refs just seem to universally decide deserve a very friendly whistle. Not even implying its a conspiracy, it’s just that they’re so ready to blow a whistle for Butler, and clam up when someone like Kawhi (who plays pretty similarly) gets clobbered.
Jimmy knew that was some bs too lol
This play right here was why I hated high school refs. I would get the same bs line from them and coach “They whistle the swipe down” mf if I only get ball on the swipe down maybe don’t penalize good defense. Ref should be watching the big orange circle and the arm handling it, not the help side defender who’s halfway out of the whistling ref’s sight behind the ballhandler and doesn’t leave their feet
Surprised they didn’t wait to blow the whistle until after they saw if Jimmy made or missed it.
Now I see why Ant yells every drive
is this a makeup call?
jimmy does not look like he is flopping or hunting for the foul
It usually annoys me when players harass the refs after a call but I wouldn’t blame Kuz for getting himself ejected in response to this bs
Lmao these refs are trash
I don’t understand this line of thinking from the refs that leads to calls like this. It’s a player known to bait fouls, often by tricking the refs in some way. They must watch film of refereeing as part of their training and see it, so they continue to give the soft fouls?
I don’t mean this just for Jimmy Butler. The same applies for Trae Young, Embiid, prime Harden, more recently Shai.
Refs are so bad this year it’s getting out of hand bruh
Refs doubling down, when caught with a mistake is remarkable. Anyone else at a regular job would be reprimanded.
This was a gimmie after he was hammered on the play before with no call.
Holy shit. Even when some guy is slacking off defence and isn’t even putting in any effort on the play, he STILL gets a whistle.
The reffing in the NBA has reached a point where it’s a joke. The league has to do something, it’s getting out of hand.
This is why the nba feels so unwatchable st times.
Announcers are so cowardly, refusing to call out the refs.
Remember when Butler kicked Aaron Gordon in the balls and Gordon got called for the foul?
You know its a rough season for the Heat when they using their ref booster card vs the Wizards
It’s always surprised me how certain players get an amazing whistle. Jimmy butler is chief among them.
He truly is MJ’s son
The NBA officiating training and discipline process is fine. It must be kept secret. We must not speak of it. We must not criticize it. We must trust that, despite a literally infinite supply of evidence to the contrary, that the best thing is that they police themselves behind the scenes and that we accept that failure will be the norm, and that we gamble on this based on purely random foul calls.
Yep, perfect. Nothing to see. Do not speak of it, just pay money for games and smile.
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And another phantom call, this time on Avdija (didn’t touch Butler).
[Here](https://np.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1ahkq6h/highlight_deni_avdija_fouls_jimmy_butler_and_he/)
Edit: **The foul was on Daniel Gafford and not Kyle Kuzma.**
**If you look at 0:13, it seems like the small touch by Gafford was really a soft one with his right hand at the back of Butler (Butler jumps into this). A VERY soft call.**
Heat Culture
Literally no contact and the ref was only a few feet away.
Refs just inventing fouls when there’s a crowd in the paint
Jimmy Buter easily has a top-5 whistle in the sport
WTF
Yet players get fined every time they publicly complain about the referees.
[You’re telling me, this is what the Pistons get on no calls. Refs are trash.](https://x.com/13_JMAC/status/1753595399036616709?s=20)
Referees across all sports rn make them so unfun to watch.
Refs warming up for the Heat playoff push
The thing that sucks about this is that it’s easy to say “eh just 2 FTs, it’s a long game”… except this can change a lot more. There’s the obvious stuff like if this puts an important player into early foul trouble, but then there’s the psychological aspect. The defense is basically being told to play even softer defense, and the offensive player is going to be even more confident in driving the next time (compared to a guy who misses near the rim and then settles for a jumper next time).
This call sucks
How to trick a ref in the NBA.
1. Jump and twist your body in an unnatural way.
2. ???????
3. Profit (with free throws)
Is there any sport with worse officiating than basketball?
It’s so weird the players that refs just seem to universally decide deserve a very friendly whistle. Not even implying its a conspiracy, it’s just that they’re so ready to blow a whistle for Butler, and clam up when someone like Kawhi (who plays pretty similarly) gets clobbered.
Jimmy knew that was some bs too lol
This play right here was why I hated high school refs. I would get the same bs line from them and coach “They whistle the swipe down” mf if I only get ball on the swipe down maybe don’t penalize good defense. Ref should be watching the big orange circle and the arm handling it, not the help side defender who’s halfway out of the whistling ref’s sight behind the ballhandler and doesn’t leave their feet
Surprised they didn’t wait to blow the whistle until after they saw if Jimmy made or missed it.
Now I see why Ant yells every drive
is this a makeup call?
jimmy does not look like he is flopping or hunting for the foul
It usually annoys me when players harass the refs after a call but I wouldn’t blame Kuz for getting himself ejected in response to this bs
Lmao these refs are trash
I don’t understand this line of thinking from the refs that leads to calls like this. It’s a player known to bait fouls, often by tricking the refs in some way. They must watch film of refereeing as part of their training and see it, so they continue to give the soft fouls?
I don’t mean this just for Jimmy Butler. The same applies for Trae Young, Embiid, prime Harden, more recently Shai.
Refs are so bad this year it’s getting out of hand bruh
Refs doubling down, when caught with a mistake is remarkable. Anyone else at a regular job would be reprimanded.
This was a gimmie after he was hammered on the play before with no call.
Holy shit. Even when some guy is slacking off defence and isn’t even putting in any effort on the play, he STILL gets a whistle.
The reffing in the NBA has reached a point where it’s a joke. The league has to do something, it’s getting out of hand.
This is why the nba feels so unwatchable st times.
Announcers are so cowardly, refusing to call out the refs.
Remember when Butler kicked Aaron Gordon in the balls and Gordon got called for the foul?
You know its a rough season for the Heat when they using their ref booster card vs the Wizards
It’s always surprised me how certain players get an amazing whistle. Jimmy butler is chief among them.
He truly is MJ’s son
The NBA officiating training and discipline process is fine. It must be kept secret. We must not speak of it. We must not criticize it. We must trust that, despite a literally infinite supply of evidence to the contrary, that the best thing is that they police themselves behind the scenes and that we accept that failure will be the norm, and that we gamble on this based on purely random foul calls.
Yep, perfect. Nothing to see. Do not speak of it, just pay money for games and smile.