Yesterday, she teed-up Chris Paul of the Los Angeles Clippers. (Teed-up means give a technical foul to.)
Players get upset at referees all the time.
Did Chris Paul, in his press interview afterwards, say, "That was a crap call and that ref should have known better."
No, he said, "The tech I got was ridiculous," Paul said. "That's terrible. There's no way that can be a technical. We try to get the ball out fast every time down the court. When we did that, she said, 'Uh-uh.' I said, 'Why uh-uh?' and she gave me a technical. That's ridiculous. If that's the case, this might not be for her."
What is the "This" that he is talking about?
Being a referee in the NBA "might not be for her"?
That's not a basketball player complaining about a referee being an idiot. That's a basketball player with a little extra disrespect for a female referee. Would he have made the same statement, "This might not be for him," if it had been a rookie male referee?
http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268750/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=83d6e0UJ
I hope Holtkamp can tough it out. As the saying goes, to be a woman referee, she's going to have to be twice as good as a male ref, to be thought of as half as good.
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