{"id":631418,"date":"2026-05-08T18:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631418\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:55:08","slug":"jj-redick-blasts-officiating-after-frustrating-game-2-loss-to-thunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/631418\/","title":{"rendered":"JJ Redick blasts officiating after frustrating Game 2 loss to Thunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> lost their second consecutive game to open up the Western Conference Semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite holding a one-point lead at halftime, the Thunder came out strong in the second, ultimately cruising to an 18-point victory.<\/p>\n

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During the game, current Lakers head coach and former Duke<\/a> star JJ Redick<\/a> had a tough time controlling his emotions.<\/p>\n

The second-year coach had to be held back by his own players and staff after picking up a technical foul.<\/p>\n

Following the game, Redick complained further, saying<\/a>, “They\u2019re (Oklahoma City<\/a>) hard enough to play. They\u2019re hard to play, and you\u2019ve got to be able to just call them. They foul. They do foul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now facing a 2-0 deficit, Redick and the Lakers will return home Saturday to host Game 3.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Duke Wire: JJ Redick blasts officiating after frustrating Game 2 loss to Thunder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Lakers lost their second consecutive game to open up the Western Conference Semifinals against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[166091,66655,1055,355,12205,6402,99,38139,269964],"class_list":["post-631418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-consecutive-game","tag-jj-redick","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-oklahoma-city","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-sports","tag-technical-foul","tag-western-conference-semifinals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}