Former NBA player and current ESPN analyst JJ Redick admittedly had a run-in with a referee during his son’s youth basketball game in New Jersey recently.
On his The Old Man and the Three podcast last week, Redick recounted the story of getting ejected from his son’s game after questioning a call.
“I said to the ref, ‘Are you seriously not going to call a travel when you just called a travel on one of my kids?’ And he teed me up for that,” Redick told Jamal Crawford, via FOX News. “That’s all I said. And as I was walking away, I just give him, you know, my sarcastic, ‘Are you serious?’ And he tossed me for that.”
After the game, Redick says the official tried to apologize to him through a third party–once he realized who Redick was.
“This is the bulls–t,” Redick said. “I go to shake the kids’ hands, the coach’s hands, and I go to the referee. I’m like, ‘Why did you throw me out? I didn’t raise my voice to you, I didn’t step to you.’ And you know, he said what he had to say, which I respect. Whatever, it’s all good. And then, the other team comes over and starts taking pictures with me. So, he realizes who I am at this point. And then he sees my coach later that day, and he says, ‘Hey, will you tell JJ I’m sorry? I shouldn’t have done that.'”
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— Jason Gallagher (@jga41agher) April 20, 2023
JJ gets paid to speak his mind on the air these days, but now he knows to be extra careful when doing so while he’s coaching.
Even if it doesn’t sound like he did anything all that bad in the first place.
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