Devin Booker calls out NBA official James Williams by name after Suns' Game 2 loss: 'Terrible tonight'
Devin Booker said people are going to start viewing the NBA like WWE if officials perform in this manner.
In the NBA playoffs, all it takes are a few extra foul calls to determine the outcome of a game. When games are close and everything is on the line, players bristle when a bad call or bad decision by a referee potentially affects a contest. Phoenix Suns star Devin Booker, however, took things to a whole other level following the team’s 120-107 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday.
Booker called out NBA official James Williams by name after the contest, saying the ref had a “terrible” performance that would lead to fans questioning the “ integrity of the sport . ” "In my 11 years, I haven't called a ref out by name, but James [Williams] was terrible tonight through and through. It's bad for the sport, bad for the integrity of the sport.
People are going to start viewing this as a WWE if they're not held responsible. "It just feels disrespectful. I know I haven't won a championship in this league, but I have been in it for 11 years now.
So to get to this point to be treated like that, for me to even be saying something out loud, it's bad. " Booker went so far as to invoke WWE, where outcomes are predetermined before wrestlers take the ring, in his criticism. All of that should earn Booker quite the fine once the NBA reviews his comments.