nba officials are racist

[BB73]

ESPN actually did an OK job with the story. They had a couple of quotes from black players saying that the study was off-base, and then showed a graphic listing the top-3 foulers in the NBA this year, 2 of whom are white (Biedrins, Stoudemire, Collison). They also mentioned that the statistics were gathered based on the box scores, which fail to indicate which referees called which fouls.

 

[akronbuck]

NBA is 80% black so How could they get the most fouls?:)

 

[bucknut11]

NEW YORK -- The NBA responded strongly and angrily Wednesday to a front-page story in The New York Times alleging a racial bias in officiating, saying the study the report was based upon was wrong and contained flawed statistical methodology.
"The story is based upon a paper that is flat-out wrong in its conclusions, and we're disappointed that they ran the story this way," NBA president of basketball operations Joel Litvin told ESPN.com, saying The Times ignored data the league provided to the newspaper to support its argument.

Wait, it was the NY Times that ran with this? It must be true!

 

[exhawg]

Can you imagine how many fouls Wade and Arenas would draw if they were white? :p