BAM ADEBAYO hoped that the post-match report of the referees would do him justice following the defeat of Miami Friday evening against Minnesota (104-106). The Floridian pivot believed that Julius Randle had made mistakes on him during his desperate attempt 3-point in the buzzer.
But the NBA did not wait to rule on its driving gap which followed the end of the match, sanctioning it of a fine of 50,000 euros for “Inappropriate contact” With the referees and for having used flower language against them. More specifically, after getting up, BAM ADEBAYO went directly to referee Kevin Cutler to tell him his four truths. It was when his interlocutor ignored him that he would have lost his calm.
“It was not even about the last action. It was compared to the match as a whole. I am not too conflicting, as I said. I do not come into conflict with the referees because it is their work and it is also ours, in the end. We have guys who are fighting for everything that is at stake ”,, he said after the meeting. “For me, it is a question of having the decency to look me in the eye when I chat with them. Obviously, we lost. I don't understand why they think we can't be emotional. (…). You have to have the decency to look a man in the eye and not go away. For me, it is a total lack of respect in an adult match ”.
Bam Adebayo insisted that he had no particular problem with the referees, but the NBA did not complain by inflicting a heavy fine. In the process, the report returning to the last two minutes of each NBA match considered that the referees had well judged the action, evoking a “marginal” contact after the shot.
