NBA fined Smart $35,000<\/a> for giving the middle finger to an official after receiving a technical against the Utah Jazz.<\/p>\n\u201cYou can\u2019t talk to them. You try to, and it\u2019s funny because even in the Utah game, I went up the beginning of the game to be a captain. The captain should be able to come talk to them. They still don\u2019t want to hear it,\u201d Smart said. \u201cSo, control what you can control.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t want to talk, you know? You try, and you move on. But it definitely is frustrating when you pour your heart out to this game, and the feedback is literally waving you off, telling you to get out your face and then giving you a tech because you\u2019re asking a simple question. Hopefully they can get it together. But it\u2019s definitely something that, as a whole, we are, as players, frustrated.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Lakers shoot the second-most free throws per game. They also allow the seventh-fewest free-throw attempts.<\/p>\n
Redick\u2019s frustration Saturday, primarily, was about the interpretation on a failed challenge in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way we do challenges and the definitions of challenges and the definitions of what the X, Y, or Z (is) and why you can\u2019t or can, it\u2019s different with every different crew,\u201d Redick said. \u201cWe\u2019re supposed to have the guy at the replay center, whoever\u2019s in charge that night, to have some level of consistency, and the definitions just get changed every single night.\u201d<\/p>\n
The play in question Saturday occurred in the third quarter when James Harden drove to the lane, and Smart attempted to take a charge. After the ball was released, it bounced out of bounds off Jake LaRavia. Redick challenged the out-of-bounds ruling, hoping to trigger a charge on Harden because of the league\u2019s \u201cproximate foul\u201d rule, which allows refs to overturn calls related to the one being challenged.<\/p>\n
The Lakers lost the challenge when crew chief Josh Tiven cited a rule stating that LaRavia wasn\u2019t involved in the block\/charge, meaning the play didn\u2019t qualify for review.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen this happen. Somebody\u2019s trying to box a guy out and gets fouled. Somebody goes over the back and there\u2019s a clear foul, ball gets deflected off the defensive team. I\u2019ve seen that challenge; I\u2019ve seen that work,\u201d Redick said. \u201cIt\u2019s not two separate plays. The ball is part of the play. The ball got loose because of the charge, and then it was deflected. It\u2019s not two separate plays.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s an insane definition. Insane.\u201d<\/p>\n
LeBron James, who has had his own issues with the league\u2019s replay system stemming from multiple issues in the 2023-24 season, said he agreed with a problematic variance night to night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no idea where the consistency is,\u201d James said. \u201cThere isn\u2019t consistency. It is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 After another game in which multiple members of the Los Angeles Lakers were assessed technical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,8231,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-359926","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}