Golden State Warriors fan pages and Reddit boards were up in arms following the team’s 127-97 Game 3 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, besmirching the referees who they felt gave the Lakers preferential treatment.
While not endorsing the theory outright, Warriors players didn’t exactly laud praise on the officials.
“[I’ll] just keep playing the defense I’m playing. Maybe they’ll call it, maybe they won’t,” said Draymond Green, who was whistled for five fouls, including a technical for arguing a foul call.
The Warriors were called for just one more foul (22) than the Lakers (21), but Golden State racked up three costly technical fouls and a flagrant, while Los Angeles was whistled for just one technical and no flagrants.