Im glad people aren't just ignoring this. These refs are being ridiculous and totally soft. The NBA needs to put a stop to this.

This year has been more reminiscent of the 2002 Kings vs Lakers. The refs aren’t missing calls, they’re literally dictating games.

I find it amazing how such a small group of officials have so much power over the game. They should be investigated and punished just like players are. You make an emotional call? You aren't allowed to officiate games just how a player is suspended.

"Lebron acting like his dog died".. 🤣

it does seem like the refs are abusing their power nowadays

Excellent research. NBA head honchos are doing a terrible job with the refs. And pushing this whole betting angle to bring in more viewers is going to make things worse in the decades to come. But unfortunately all they can do is cover up the scandals. Nothing is going to change until a new league like the ABA rivals the NBA which is not happening anytime soon.

really glad that people aren't just ignoring this and i'm glad that Vanvleet said what he said towards Ben Taylor, he just can't get away with that shit honestly 100%%%%%

How long is it gonna be before people realize the league is about 40-60% scripted? It’s already a known fact refs intentionally favour teams who are down in an elimination game and try to push games to overtime, that’s a known fact. Then you have Scott Foster, Eric Lewis, John and Jacyn Goble, who are all openly Celtics fans and the Celtics’ record with these guys on the crew reflects this, and that’s just one team. There are plenty of refs who either favour specific teams/players or intentionally screw them over, multiple conference finals and finals series have been decided pretty blatantly by biased officiating (2002 WCF, 2006 Finals, 2001 ECF, 2022 ECF, etc.), and yet people STILL trust the league. It’s unreal to me. Funny enough, I was in a live game thread on reddit a while back (pretty sure it was the Bucks Raptors OT game from earlier this year), and a guy with a throwaway account said around the early to mid 4th quarter when the Bucks were up by a decent margin “refs had OT planned for tonight, expect some egregious calls soon”. Sure enough, one of the most absurd runs of bad calls I’ve ever seen resulted in a 21 point comeback in 4 minutes. Also it’s not like there’s a ton of guys just randomly saying this, this comment stood out. Throughout the season after that, I noticed throwaway accounts in game threads predicting strings of one way soft calls 4-5 minutes before they happen. I’ve tried to go back and find these comments but it seems most got deleted or buried. If it happened once, coincidence, but not if it happens this often. Someone or a group of people with inside knowledge have been leaking this. Expect a MAJOR scandal within the next season or 2.

Mayday! The refs are on the loose!😂

This is the first year a group of friends and I are choosing not to watch games this year and especially the playoffs. The refs are ruining the game. Got rid of my league pass. The only way to fix this is to hit their wallets.

I am so glad this issue has been brought up. Yes, the NBA referees are sure abusing their power and deserves investigation.

Yo Casey! Just wanted to say I love your content bro. I’ve followed your story & content for many years now and know about your journey from mainstream to indy. You already a sports media powerhouse in my opinion, pushing out the best NBA content. Can’t wait for you to hit 1 mill subs and see what’s next in store for you. Keep going! Fan from South Africa. Cheers!

Thanks for breaking this down so concisely. I have been trying to explain all of this to people but I couldn't articulate all the points this well--so now I'm just going to share your video.

Love your videos man! It's hard to keep up with whats happening in the nba in Sweden but you help me keep up, you deserve more subs!

Finally someone called the refs out for all that BS calls they be doing getting players ejected, and techs for no reason FRED VANVLEET just earned my respect

absolutely for sure it does seem 100% like the refs are absolutely abusing their power nowadays i mean just look at Scott Foster, he's been doing this to CP3 since he was a Clipper in 2011 to now playing for the Phoenix Suns to a decade , it's absolutely ridiculous and it's bad for the league.

These referees are terrible. Almost every game there is 1-2 bad referees. Some of the ref calls are crazy like the Jordan Poole ball pass to referee. Something needs to be done.

Your description of LeBron was spot on

Keep grinding man! These videos almost every other day are dope!

as a Kings fan, I'm glad yall are making content about these refs. they need to be under investigation fr

A whole video on Demarcus Cousins would be epic, he couldn’t take a step without getting a tech

Been screaming this for years thanks for the great video

the way you transition videos is awesome keep it up

This well done, I just subscribed. Keep up the good work.

i really love ur story telling way great job and great channel

Ur content is the best in the basketball community no doubt. Always honest and don't hold back - Florida kid

I love this channel man.. i love conspiracies… keep it coming man…

Being a raptors fan will be tough for the next few years man. Any game that's close entering the 4tg quarter is gonna be a loss

That's why the blazers never get fouled. Old-school beef with Chauncey

Great vid, no one else has takes like this. Their just reading headlines we already read.

That thumbnail you put up for this video is perfect !!!!

A ref could literally be fixing a game and they'll still call it better than Joey Crawford.

Thank you. Ref work this year has been extraordinarily horrible.

bro, you're really good at this.

The refs just do what the NBA tells them!

Crazy more people aren’t discussing or investigating the obvious game fixing currently taking place.

Thank you AM Hoops! The background work you're doing makes our NBA experience so much better!

6:50 thought that guy was Richard Jefferson dressed up as a ref 😂

Another banger keep up the good work 🙌

"IT'S THE FACT!" 💀💀💀

Just subscribed, really good stuff, I had forgotten about Foster.

3:58 That 2 finger tech was disrespectful. Scott Foster is a BAN.

Bro the referees should really be fined for making purposefully false calls 😢

Perkins had me dead lmao☠☠☠

this is why you are one of the top basketball analysis channels on youtube

2012 Heat VS Thunder Finals piss me off even more now

Perk "it's the facs" 🤣

Hey dude could you do a March madness bracket video like you did last year Thanks

Refs went from “and I took that personally” to “I take everything personally”

Who's here after yesterday's Raps vs Lakers game? THANK YOU AM HOOPS for exposing this BULLSHIT!!!

Legit never been this early to a video lol Casey I’d love to interview you for my KZfaq ch. is that possible??

Its more obvious now than ever that there is an absolute bias from the refs.

One of the suspicious ( seems strategic) trends I’m noticing with some of these games is the timing of foul calls and who they give fouls to. The lakers just beat the grizzlies ( who was really thin with bigs bc of injuries). While grizzlies was the number 2 seed, match up rise the grizzlies was a favorable matchup for the lakers . So how did it work out so well for them? I’m glad I asked. They beat the timberwolves in the play in game. Lose that game and they would have ended up playing the nuggets: a healthier more formidable foe. Hats off to the lakers for winning that game to face the team they likely preferred right? Sure if the suspicious calls were not happening. Who did the refs keep in foul trouble . Karl Anthony Towns who was giving them all types of problems . His plus minus was like Steph and keeping him off the court kept the lakers in the game/striking distance. The timberwolves coach did a solid job of putting him out there here and there despite the foul trouble. So that’s when the other juggernaut came into getting the whole team into foul trouble ( stealing the momentum, frustrating players and making them play timid). The timberwolves were in the bonus with 10 minutes to go in the fourth 😮🤔. So the lakers could chip away at the lead, steal momentum etc So while on face value it looks like the Timberwolves just collapsed the truth is they likely had a lot of help with their folding from the refs . This juggernaut of a weapon is not new. Anyone pay attention that before Kobe’s iconic lob to shaq to help seal the comeback victory over the Portland trailblazers in the west finals, the lakers got a lot of ticky tack fouls. Wait! This seems similar to the Kobe lakers comeback win over the Celtics in game 7 . Back to this year. I believe it was the warriors game 2 loss vs the Kings. The juggernaut seemed to be pulled out in the 3rd quarter. Just like the Timberwolves against the lakers, the warriors were in foul trouble at the 10 minute mark . But why the 3rd quarter ( aren’t the warriors known for their iconic 3rd quarters) Notice the trend?!

Glad attention is being brought to this. One quick note, however: the Rasheed Wallace tech for staring at the ref is absolutely warranted. Anything that could be considered an attempt to intimidate a referee is a technical and can even be grounds for immediate ejection. Before the clip, the referee had told him to stop doing what he was doing, and then when a timeout was called, instead of joining the rest of his team, he chose to continue staring at the ref. Under the rules that is absolutely a fair technical.

Bruhh the thumbnail 😂😂😂

ill say it again, they need to fine refs for bad calls

Isaiah Livers tech vs the Pacers was a joke😂 horrible refs

Start a petition!!!! I'm tired of this bs. I love basketball, but man, even when the refs favor the team i'm rooting for that shit is just getting corny. Great video!

What I noticed in this year's officiating crew is that Scott Foster has a grudge against the sixers, when the sixers played against the blazers this week, I saw 6 calls that were not actual fouls getting called by scott foster on the sixers whilst the blazers slapped harden in the face and were doing the same thing as th sixers but not getting fouls

Learned so many new things from this video. Great stuff!!

can you do the blazers making playoffs?

I like how they are clips of horrible calls in the background 🤣🤣

make a shorts version of this video to put on other platforms. this story has the potential to go viral enough to force the nba to investigate. 8

I want to be a ref. Doing whatever I want with coaches and players taking the punishment sounds like the perfect job to me.

Ja Morant point your red lasers at the...

you unloaded. great info. well put together. i dont like bball and i was very interested.

Watching most of the playoff games this year the officials are horrible with the calls they make and the calls they don’t make. You can usually tell which team they want to win and which team they want to lose. Pretty pathetic

It is such an easy fix, give coaches more challenges and let them keep it if they are correct. Have maybe a off court ref at every game who is in charge of overviewing each challenge.

I've said a bunch this year, albeit I'm a warriors fan, the officiating isn't even making sense. Like they seems to call some players all the time and some players can never get a whistle

Hey man. I was comparing steph 's stats from 2016 to his stats this season and I was shocked to see that are almost identical. Hope you talk about that.

All season some of the calls have been bad. I just hope this year's playoffs don't get affected.

This guy is so enthusiastically 😂

This season's officiating across the board has been some of the overall worst I've seen in over a decade, and its not for the usual reasons, either. Its actually because for some reason the officials are now allowed to take a lot of extra time to make calls, so a play can happen, a foul occurs, its obvious, but they'll wait for up to 10 seconds AFTER it transpires to call it, which is AGAINST THE RULES. You either call it outright as soon as you see it, or you don't call it at all. It is based entirely off of confidence/certainty of the call they're making. If they're not sure enough that they hesitate to blow the whistle, they're by the rules not supposed to call those calls. Its that simple. Yet, the NBA is allowing them to take their jolly time in making calls. Its really degrading. And overall in my opinion, Joey Crawford and Scott Foster are the worst of the worst. But now there's no more Joey, and hasn't been for quite a few seasons now. As for Scott? He's still the crew chief of 90% of the games he officiates. And he's infamous for having some weird vendetta against WC teams. I'll never forget the game we (the Blazers) were playing years back before Dame was drafted (I think) against OKC and LaMarsha was going up for a block against KD, and I mean EVERYBODY in Arena, at home, and even down to OKC's own media team and players knew the call Scott made on it as a goaltend was one of the most violating and egregiously wrong calls in history. Everyone was angry with him over that call, and when you even have some OKC players & loyalists noting it was a shit call that they couldn't believe was even made, that tells you EVERYTHING you need to know, too. And man was it a imperative game for both teams, but especially us Blazers. He literally broke our game & thus placement in the playoffs, completely changing everything as a result. I cannot count how many times I've seen him make some of the most absurd, egregious, illogical and plain stupid calls. He's not only the most hated official among players, he is also the most hated official among fans across the league as well, and even plenty of media personnel dislike him too. I just remembered that there was two games so far this year the Blazers have played where there is this female ref who clearly seems to either A) Hate the Blazers or B) has a massive ego issue, becuase of the sheer amount of calls and especially techs she was calling in both games, specifically against our guys. One of them even the players and their broadcasters were straight up confused at most of the calls and consistently going "what the hell was that for?" and "that is a terrible, terrible call, there's just no reason for that kind of nonsense", with a outright sincere apology to Blazer fans for it. That's how crazy this ref got with dishing out techs for the stupidest shit. There was another game where it wasn't just her, but the rest of the refs doing that same shit too - just throwing techs out against both teams in the game on the most weird and simple things that are so far from deserving of a tech to where I was coming unglued for BOTH the Blazers and the other team. I am a Blazers fan always, RipCity first of course, but the main thing I want more than anything is for the officiating to be consistent, fair and make some goddamn sense for once across the board. No bias to any player, staff or teams, no betting, no ego, none of that shit, just doing their jobs as they're supposed to and that's it. Having some goddamn integrity. That's it. Its a simple ask and wish. If only we'd be able to finally get that for once and keep it at that. I ALWAYS call out bad calls, good calls, when things should be no calls, or if they should have made calls when they didn't, both on my own team and all others. That's how much I value and prioritize the right calls and no calls over all else.

I clicked this randomly thinking it was gonna be some standard conspiracy theory BS but this presents a lot of compelling information. I'm honestly not sure why technology isn't used more in officiating in 2024

Havent watched NBA game in years cuz of this and I probably won't ever again unless it's at a bar

I’m surprised that every ref doesn’t have a personal vendetta against CP3.

Man, some of those NBA refs... Idk what kind of game they think they're officiating, but it isn't basketball.

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Tip ‘o’ the iceberg, boyo

This is good but you should mention what % of FVFs games are officiated by Taylor

Not to negate the hard work of the whole video but I gotta say I look forward to the end to see how he relates this topic to the previous video.

Refs holding grudges is basically the nerds finally getting their revenge on the jocks

The NBA is out here picking pockets WWE style 😂

At some point, this has to be addressed!

NBA referees are Karens in striped shirts

NBA will start losing fans if they don't put a stop to this. The Finals have already been going down in viewers.

Refs more emotional than Boogie Cousins.

fred: Cmon men ref: Get the fk outa here

Just like any other job, there should be a standard set and if you constantly blow the call or call the game inconsistently, then you should get a strike or write up or whatever. After awhile, if you’re not doing your job well, you get let go

listening to this is like reimagining Game of Thrones' Grand Maester Conspiracy.

10 seconds into this vid and I'm already dying laughing 😂

Game 6 2016 was the game more selling that I've ever seen , just to have a game 7 and for that they have the game 7 more seen in nba history .

I get it that some refs have beef with players. Imagine you're a ref and the same player is always questioning your decision and being a nuisance.

I no longer watch 🏀 due to the reffing.

It's playing out everyday. Shoulda seen the nuggets sun's game tonight

Ooooh this video's gonna catch a hefty fine bro

There was one Celtics game where Tatum and the Celtics had like 4 FT shots and the other team had about 22 FTs. He is really getting pissed at the refs recently. It can take you out of your game! Some players do not play good when they get mad! They give the refs way too much freedom and power. They need to change something up.

is kendrick's bs "IT'S THE FACTS" all he's gonna be known for now cuz i'm good with that lol

Scott Foster called a questionable tech down the stretch last week. Who calls a tech with 20 seconds left.

Have you noticed that there are far less replays being shown? There have been so many bad calls by the refs and people can get a better look at those bad calls during the replay so to cover up those bad calls they are not having as many replays anymore. But you can still get stats that prove teams like the Lakers get many more calls in their favor. And on the other hand, Steph Curry hardly ever gets a favorable call - he gets bumped when shooting 3s and often times has no landing space after shooting a 3 but no call. You breath LeBron James direction and there is a whistle. Then they say it is because the Warriors shoot more 3s and there aren't as many fouls when you are shooting 3s, but there are games the Warriors drive to the hoop many more times than the opposing team and still don't get as many calls. Curry is a superstar and he drove to the hoop twice as many times as the Lakers young player Reaves and yet Reaves gets to the foul line twice as many times as Curry.