WATCH: Official Courtney Kirkland Looks Right at Potential-Flagrant Foul on Stephen Curry Only To Do Absolutely Nothing About it

Tonoy Sengupta | 18/04/2023
WATCH: Official Courtney Kirkland Looks Right at Potential-Flagrant Foul on Stephen Curry Only To Do Absolutely Nothing About it

Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors seem to be having a tough time at the moment. And why wouldn’t they? Not only is the competition steeper than it was than their title run last season, but they also didn’t come into the NBA with the greatest momentum behind them, with Andrew Wiggins even famously only returning to the team after a long time away in the playoffs.

With all that in mind, if the Warriors want to repeat as NBA champions this season, they need all the help they can get. And as you’d expect, a significant part of that is at least getting a fair whistle from the officials. And yet, as proof shows yet again, the team isn’t even being granted that much.

During game 2 of Golden State Warriors vs Sacramento Kings, Stephen Curry went up for one of his routine threes. And well, let’s just say the sideline official should probably not have any job that require the use of one’s eyes after his flub up on this one.

 

Official looks right at Stephen Curry’s feet and still decides that everything is fine

Stephen Curry famously gets no foul calls whatsoever. It’s almost like the man somehow managed to murder the family of each and every official in the NBA, and now they’re letting all his opponents beat on him for fun.

Of course, this is no new phenomenon. Even when it happened back in the 2022 NBA Finals, it wasn’t anything new or shocking. And frankly, that’s something the NBA community needs to address far more than it has already.

That said, even this egregious moment was a bit more covered in grey than what happened in game 2 against the Kings. Just take a look at the clip in the tweet below.

For those who may say that Curry is flailing too much, notice that the defender’s lead foot is where the Warriors star’s original landing spot would have been. And given that Steph is someone who has had his early career plagued by a number of ankle injuries, you could probably imagine why he’d want to avoid another one. After all, this is the kind of foul that would be ruled as a flagrant foul in today’s NBA.

This absolute idiocy needs to change from the officials. The referees in this game are, lead official Zach Zarba, and, the man who missed this obvious call, Courtney Kirkland. If the Warriors star was to get injured during this game, these are the people that need to be held accountable… or be declared legally blind.

Adam Silver has said many things in the past about making sure officials do their job to the best of their ability. It’s time he took some firing decisions.

 

Some fan reactions to Courtney Kirkland’s utter and blatant incompetence

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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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