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...but the fall was just terribly fake slapstick at its worst.
I've seen falls like this from behind.
How much bigger is OJ Mayo than the
referee he hit.
This just shows the sickness of high
school/AAU basketball in this country
where kids like OJ Mayo are shopped from
school to school to see where they
(and their handlers) can squeeze the
most money.
Prediction: USC (or whatever school
OJ Mayo goes to) on NCAA probation within
2 years.
I don't see what the controversy is.
In any level of basketball I've ever heard of, two technical fouls on a player or coach brings automatic ejection anyway.
It's not as though he was ejected for knocking down the ref. He was *already* out of the game.
Besides, it just doesn't matter what the referee did or did not do after the contact with the player. Was it a dive? Probably. But it doesn't matter if the ref dives, jumps, skips, or does handstands.
If you touch a referee, you are ejected, even if you had zero technical fouls before the contact. That's how it is in basketball, and that's how it should be in any sport on planet earth.
If the high school kid is so full of himself, that he gets not one, but two technical fouls, then he deserves whatever punishment awaits him.
Peter Brown
This is ridiculous, it doesn't matter if the ref fell or not, he's out! Period.
from whom did the ref learn to flop like that, shane battier?
i agree with the first post, though; any contact and you're out.
