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How is Scott Foster still a ref in the league? Like... how can you be THIS CONNECTED(134 calls in 6 months span...) with a known and confessed dirty ref and keep your job?

I don't think most refs are dirty... a lot of them just make mistakes which is normal. But this one... this one I'm 99.999% sure is dirty AF.
 
gandalfe said:
He's making $41,000,000 this year. Averaging 33.9 min/gm, assuming 82 games/season, that means he's making more than that every 7 minutes he plays. I think he'll be fine.
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It's crazy when you put it in that kind of perspective.

The money these guys make is obscene

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Nice win for the Rockets today but looked like a gnarly injury for Sengun, he was wheeled off the court.

Hopefully he is ok, the Rockets may be hard to stay below if he misses significant time
 
gandalfe said:
He's making $41,000,000 this year. Averaging 33.9 min/gm, assuming 82 games/season, that means he's making more than that every 7 minutes he plays. I think he'll be fine.
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It's not so much the amount as compared to his salary, but as compared to the amount players are generally fined for remarks about officiating. Usually it's around $25K or in extreme cases $50K. So $100K is a huge fine by comparison.
 
sip said:
I bet it was more about KO not having much interest in sticking around here for 13mil. He is in a much better position minutes wise in Toronto than he was ever going to be here with Collins, Kessler, Lauri and Hendricks.
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Not to mention up to 3 rookies
 
hgb said:
A huge factor when it comes to gambling in the NBA is that single games matter so little in the regular season. When every game has higher potential of being important, throwing a game is a much higher risk.
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Usually that's not how corrupt gamblers make money, not with the outcome of the game itself. With the exponential growth of online gambling in the past years the type of thing you can gamble on is ridiculous.
You can bet which team or player will foul first, or foul out, which team will get the first FT, if a player will get more or less fouls or any stats more than his average. Sum that with a ref making just a couple of thousand a game and therefore easily corruptible and you have recipe for manipulation.
Recently a huge scheme has been found out in major soccer league in Brazil. Players from small teams were getting paid by gamblers to get yellow cards, or concede corner kicks in exchange for 10x their monthly salary. And the only reason they found out was because one of the players failed to get a yellow card after getting the money since he never checked in, gamblers lost their money and were sending death threats to the player and his family so he ended up going to the cops.
 
KqWIN said:
It's unfortunate that Exum's body cannot handle an NBA season...but he's still found a way to get so much better over the years. It's great to see him playing well again. If he wasn't injury prone and had more time to develop (less time rehabbing) he would have been a great player.
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Exum made a strategic mistake by prioritizing preservation of his draft status over development when he was a kid. Wrong trajectory.
 
fishonjazz said:
His turnovers are a little high (3.9) and his free throw shooting could be better (78.6)
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A little. But he is so ball dominant, if you look at turnovers per touch, I bet it is not bad. A good metric would be TO per team possession while he is on the floor.
 
silesian said:
Exum made a strategic mistake by prioritizing preservation of his draft status over development when he was a kid. Wrong trajectory.
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I don't understand. What would've been the right trajectory? He got a ton of minutes in his rookie season. Surely staying in an inferior league, with inferior training and competition, would not have helped his development.
 
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