{"id":659141,"date":"2026-10-28T01:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659141\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T01:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T01:54:16","slug":"jb-bickerstaffs-reaction-to-a-referees-unexpected-touch-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/659141\/","title":{"rendered":"JB Bickerstaff\u2019s reaction to a referee\u2019s unexpected touch goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">A referee placed a hand on JB Bickerstaff\u2019s chest during the Pistons\u2019 game against the 76ers. The Detroit coach quickly swatted it away.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">The moment was caught on camera late in the first quarter, and his expression made the brief exchange hard to miss.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">It\u2019s not clear whether Bickerstaff was genuinely bothered or joking with the official, but the clip is getting plenty of attention online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A referee placed a hand on JB Bickerstaff\u2019s chest during the Pistons\u2019 game against the 76ers. The Detroit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-659141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}