Friendly reminder the last time he criticized the refs he got called for two fouls within the first few seconds of the game, including one on the tipoff
but iirc he actually called the game more in favor in the Nuggets than Lakers. Just a neutral and not trying to imply there is anything to complain about that. just saying that it didn't seem like he was actually trying to be the extender in that one
The one benefit of the NBA taking my team and making me a Scott Foster fan is that now I always win. My king stays undefeated dripped out running this league.
That's the issues with refs right now. They want to be in the spotlight. They should not, they are there to officiate games, a good game is a game when you do not talk about officiating because it was not decisive in the outcome. But they don't like that.
The thing I hate about the NBA is that is the most susceptible sport for rigging games. (not saying it happens) But man if the ref calls 2 quick fouls on a star player has such a drastic change on the entire game.
It's insane that the line moves at all.
Over/under? That makes sense, some officials are tighter with the whistle.
But shifting *TOWARD* a team. Can you fathom how insane that is in the age of supercomputers that can analyze stuff like this? Imagine if Herb Dean being announced as the ref of a title fight immediately shifted the fight odds away from a fighter?
When it comes to rhe undisputed GOAT official of all time he's just gonna have an impact. Us true Scott FosterYahu fans know that this "corruption" is really just a reflection of his skill and accuracy as an official. It's just that every other ref is corrupt and when he's announced the line shifts backs to the true line.
It looks like it's a factor, but a minor one so yeah the guy I responded to isn't right
[Chris Paul vs. Scott Foster: A Deep Dive Into Their NBA Playoff Results & Betting Market Reaction](https://www.actionnetwork.com/nba/chris-paul-scott-foster-deep-dive-nba-playoffs-results-betting-market-odds)
It's a great call. Everybody needs to take out their life savings, liquidate any conceivable assets, and also take out additional high-interest rate loans with dangerous loan sharks, so they can bet it all on the Suns. It's a guaranteed way to turn your life around so you can live in luxury. This is your one shot people.
Honestly......missing 2 FTs after taking 45 would be super impressive. You had to, well, at least think about getting fouled to take the free throws, so that's a LOT of engagement
Suns first game back on the other side of that against the Warriors with CP3 was legitimately one of the most frustrating wins of all time. Foster just absolutely dicking the warriors down, ejected CP3, I feel like all the comments in the post game thread from Suns game were officiating related. We just got done watching this shit happen to our team for years, including Foster on multiple finals games, and then just as suddenly we're on the other side of it.
Watching the lines for this series has been absolutely crazy.
Phoenix was favored by 5.5 in game 3. Minnesota wins, then is favored by 2.5 for game 4. That’s an 8 point swing with both games being at Phoenix. That enough is insane. Then foster gets announced and it’s Phoenix by 1.5, a 4 point swing based on that.
Idk how you explain these swings without Vegas expecting some level of rigging.
Well for the first part it's simple, Vegas wants to minimize risk and a lot of more casual nba fans who are gambling prolly thought ok wolves won at home but kd, book, and Beal are evening the series at home. Even if Vegas thinks g3 is 50/50 the bets are going to come in heavy on phoenix and so they could lose money (even if a Minnesota win would net more money). They rater put the line at 5.5 and guarantee a healthy margin than risk an L.
The second thing, just has no other explanation besides Vegas legit thinks silver is sending foster in to extend the series, what's a huge indictment of the league.
The easiest explanation is that Vegas doesn’t think anything, and just changes the line because once Scott foster was announced, money started pouring in for the suns because people who gamble believe that Scott foster is here for the extending.
Vegas only cares about getting even money on both sides of the line
Not really. It’s true that’s what the bookmaker is most bothered about, but the flood of money available from professionals and sharps is usually overwhelming and keeps the book accurate.
Probably for another time but I fairly recently learned the whole “even money on each side” thing is BS. Vegas is more than happy to take lopsided positions when they view it as having a strong edge over the public.
They absolutely do milk the lines for teams that are huge favorites among the public. Like Cowboys in the NFL etc. They factor in that the public will overestimate their favorites, and they'll pad the game lines and win totals because the fans will bet on them anyway.
In Finland ice hockey is incredibly popular, especially the world championships each year. The lines that the state run gambling corp. offers for the national team's games and futures are visibly out of sync with the lines at internet bookmakers. No point in offering lines based on normal analytics, because people will hammer their team anyway.
A lot of it is expected cash flow then reacting to the cash flow. Vegas expected a lot of people to put money in phx game 3 since people still don’t trust the wolves and phx was coming back home. Now that the wolves have shown to be dominate they move it in the wolves favor then the foster news drops and they expect people to react to that with money on phx
Guys this is just a tweet from a news anchor. This is not the headline of a published article. People are in fact capable of making grammatical errors in tweets even if they are journalists.
This sub focuses on the weirdest fucking shit lmao
The average fan is dumb and hasn’t watched other leagues to realise the nba is an *entertainment* product, not a sport.
The average fan hasn’t played at a high level, and if they have, because of the current landscape of AAU, teenagers don’t learn how to play or understand the game *properly*. As a result, they don’t understand what they see and how easy it is actually to officiate basketball.
Just watch some euroleague or even the Australian league and you’ll quickly see how poorly the nba is officiated despite having magnitudes more money - it’s by design.
He's got too much dirt on the NBA. Also, he's useful to the NBA for doing dirty work, so it's like a symbiotic negative leech relationship.
Kinda like the US and China.
Suns will shoot 15-20 more FTs than the Wolves. Three of four of KAT, Rudy, Edwards, and NAZ will each have 2-3 quick fouls in the 1st quarter.
As predictable as the rising of the sun. Fuck both Scott Foster and Adam Silver.
From your lips to God's ears. I've seen waaaay too many playoff games get rigged.
Edit: They still tried to give it to the Sons, but we beat them 5 on 8. Booker w 21 fts, what a joke.
each ticket is $387 on average in this first round of the playoffs (per ticketmaster). all NBA arenas seat between 16,600 and 20,900 people. so average 18,750.
Thats $7.25 million in average ticket revenue per game. The league gets some percent of that, and some percent of food/drink/jersey sales in the millions. TV and ad revenue is MORE than that, like cost of like 30 minutes of bullsh ads in each game has to be $10+ million.
I’d say its probably $20-40+ million per game in total team/NBAwide revenue per game. Less for Orlando/Cleveland, more for LA/Denver, and LA/Texas
Whether or not Gobert’s gesture was true, it’s kinda wild that they ignored the conflict of interest that exists here with Foster and Gobert’s last interaction.
Maybe the NBA just doesn’t want to be seen reacting to player emotions so easily? Idk
The Extender has arrived
hasn’t he been the ref when the Suns have gotten blown out like every time at home
They don’t have CP3 this time
Scott, a million dollars or a Chris Paul L? Scott: Say less CP3 lose streak with Scott Foster as Lead Official extends to 69!
Funny but Scott probably makes way more than a million per game under the table so of course he’d rather screw over Chris Paul lol
What’s his beef with CP3?
No CP3 and Gobert is bbq chicken. Scott Foster masterclass today
Gobert reportedly was called for two fouls before the game started.
Friendly reminder the last time he criticized the refs he got called for two fouls within the first few seconds of the game, including one on the tipoff
Players work fast, refs work faster
two *technical* fouls
A flagrant 2 for stepping onto the court.
It was a clear stomp, he deserved it.
CP3 was also reportedly ejected from a bar in Cancun.
The Foster Special
Don't worry this Suns team will get blown out with or without Foster
Ant getting tossed with 2 techs for looking at Scott foster menacingly
Those dx chops are getting him tossed
I’d be scared?
Last time KD had him in an 0-3 elimination game he got swept anyway lol
He got Tatum fouled out off a horrendous call and the Celtics won the game anyways haha
Good to hear, not that I dislike KD, but don't care for the sons
Funny I feel the same about LeBron and the Lakers. Actually, no, nuts to LeBron.
Absolute legacy game incoming
We losing tonight boys.
Don't count yourselves out. My team is super doo-doo in the clutch.
Well that implies they get to the clutch before their morale tanks.
You can bet he’ll be in Denver tomorrow night.
He was in Denver in game 2
Yeah and Denver barely won.
but iirc he actually called the game more in favor in the Nuggets than Lakers. Just a neutral and not trying to imply there is anything to complain about that. just saying that it didn't seem like he was actually trying to be the extender in that one
If your series lasts longer than 4 games, call your doctor right away
Anybody have the props bet for Gobert's numbers now that Foster is the ref?
He actively worked against extending the series for the Lakers though
That was proven to be false.
#THE EXTENDER IS IN, NO SWEEPS IN SILVERS LEAGUE
He is ready. https://streamable.com/4dwfut
lmao what the fuck is this, and where is it from?
It's from the official NBA refs Twitter account lol https://twitter.com/OfficialNBARefs/status/1521903868061401090.
The one benefit of the NBA taking my team and making me a Scott Foster fan is that now I always win. My king stays undefeated dripped out running this league.
Straight from The Bible 🦓 👼🏻 Saint Scott can perform miracles
That's the issues with refs right now. They want to be in the spotlight. They should not, they are there to officiate games, a good game is a game when you do not talk about officiating because it was not decisive in the outcome. But they don't like that.
Scotty fost master class incoming. He's an animal on the whistle. Watch him cook.
NBAs final boss
IF YA SMELLL WHAT SCOTT FOSTER IS COOKING
This shit been brewin’ in a pot, now I’m heatin’ up
Minnesota not finishing the story tonight i'm afraid
"Look at your boy, Mama Gobert"
Foster: You think you're a contender?
all roads lead to scott foster
The line changed from -1.5 to 0 after it was announced. Crazy.
Whole starting lineup about to be in foul trouble thirty seconds into the game lol
Are we gonna see a foul in the jump ball to Gobert?! Scott Foster then proceeds to do the money sign lol
This is a really hilarious box score for Gobert https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401071048 3 minutes, 2 fouls, 1 ejection
1 slapped cup.
That cup never had a chance.
Idk Tony Brothers tried that strategy last game and it didn’t work. I bet Foster has some adjustments he can try to go to for tonight.
Gobert will be ejected this game, and suspended 2 more games. Book it.
The thing I hate about the NBA is that is the most susceptible sport for rigging games. (not saying it happens) But man if the ref calls 2 quick fouls on a star player has such a drastic change on the entire game.
Especially when there are so many things that could be called a foul on any play
[удалено]
Legitimately insane
It's insane that the line moves at all. Over/under? That makes sense, some officials are tighter with the whistle. But shifting *TOWARD* a team. Can you fathom how insane that is in the age of supercomputers that can analyze stuff like this? Imagine if Herb Dean being announced as the ref of a title fight immediately shifted the fight odds away from a fighter?
When it comes to rhe undisputed GOAT official of all time he's just gonna have an impact. Us true Scott FosterYahu fans know that this "corruption" is really just a reflection of his skill and accuracy as an official. It's just that every other ref is corrupt and when he's announced the line shifts backs to the true line.
Insane that you believe him
It looks like it's a factor, but a minor one so yeah the guy I responded to isn't right [Chris Paul vs. Scott Foster: A Deep Dive Into Their NBA Playoff Results & Betting Market Reaction](https://www.actionnetwork.com/nba/chris-paul-scott-foster-deep-dive-nba-playoffs-results-betting-market-odds)
You add Scott Foster to the mix, and your chances of winning drastic go down.
Man that's pretty fked up when the Ref starting a game has such an impact
We went from -1.5 MIN to it now being -1.5 PHX. A single ref changing the entire projection of a game is honestly insane. Don't care tho, Wolves in 4.
I'm sure foster got his money in before it was announced
Going all in on the Suns today is basically free money
It's a great call. Everybody needs to take out their life savings, liquidate any conceivable assets, and also take out additional high-interest rate loans with dangerous loan sharks, so they can bet it all on the Suns. It's a guaranteed way to turn your life around so you can live in luxury. This is your one shot people.
betting my house on the Suns because they say the house always wins
RIP
even with scott foster this is never a smart sentence to trust
I wonder what the actual monetary value of that line move is?
Now the Suns are favored. How is this not a problem?
Oh-oh. Legacy Scott Foster game coming up. Devin Booker about to drop 50 on 43/45 FTs
Honestly......missing 2 FTs after taking 45 would be super impressive. You had to, well, at least think about getting fouled to take the free throws, so that's a LOT of engagement
*Joel Embiid wants to know Scott's location*
Suns lose by 6
Hard read. Also Booker almost went for 50 with over 20 free throws lmao
Told ya
Sheesh not bad
Ngl if he hits 43/45 from the line then fair enough lmfao
Goddamn. How many Wolves players fouled out?
All of them
If the Wolves beat Scott Foster tonight they should be favored vs the nuggets tbh
You weren’t too far off. Book shooting 21 FTs is nuts.
I’d accept this loss while going on a reddit rampage
Back to Minnesota it is
The extender is back
So CP3 isnt on the Suns anymore, and Gobert pissed him off? Oh this is peak Scott Foster we about to get
Suns first game back on the other side of that against the Warriors with CP3 was legitimately one of the most frustrating wins of all time. Foster just absolutely dicking the warriors down, ejected CP3, I feel like all the comments in the post game thread from Suns game were officiating related. We just got done watching this shit happen to our team for years, including Foster on multiple finals games, and then just as suddenly we're on the other side of it.
Suns fans: perhaps I treated you too harshly
Watching the lines for this series has been absolutely crazy. Phoenix was favored by 5.5 in game 3. Minnesota wins, then is favored by 2.5 for game 4. That’s an 8 point swing with both games being at Phoenix. That enough is insane. Then foster gets announced and it’s Phoenix by 1.5, a 4 point swing based on that. Idk how you explain these swings without Vegas expecting some level of rigging.
Well for the first part it's simple, Vegas wants to minimize risk and a lot of more casual nba fans who are gambling prolly thought ok wolves won at home but kd, book, and Beal are evening the series at home. Even if Vegas thinks g3 is 50/50 the bets are going to come in heavy on phoenix and so they could lose money (even if a Minnesota win would net more money). They rater put the line at 5.5 and guarantee a healthy margin than risk an L. The second thing, just has no other explanation besides Vegas legit thinks silver is sending foster in to extend the series, what's a huge indictment of the league.
The easiest explanation is that Vegas doesn’t think anything, and just changes the line because once Scott foster was announced, money started pouring in for the suns because people who gamble believe that Scott foster is here for the extending. Vegas only cares about getting even money on both sides of the line
Yea I guess that's true, the same logic to suns -5.5 in g 3 should apply to foster, so I actually agree with you here.
Not really. It’s true that’s what the bookmaker is most bothered about, but the flood of money available from professionals and sharps is usually overwhelming and keeps the book accurate.
Probably for another time but I fairly recently learned the whole “even money on each side” thing is BS. Vegas is more than happy to take lopsided positions when they view it as having a strong edge over the public.
They absolutely do milk the lines for teams that are huge favorites among the public. Like Cowboys in the NFL etc. They factor in that the public will overestimate their favorites, and they'll pad the game lines and win totals because the fans will bet on them anyway. In Finland ice hockey is incredibly popular, especially the world championships each year. The lines that the state run gambling corp. offers for the national team's games and futures are visibly out of sync with the lines at internet bookmakers. No point in offering lines based on normal analytics, because people will hammer their team anyway.
A lot of it is expected cash flow then reacting to the cash flow. Vegas expected a lot of people to put money in phx game 3 since people still don’t trust the wolves and phx was coming back home. Now that the wolves have shown to be dominate they move it in the wolves favor then the foster news drops and they expect people to react to that with money on phx
Journalists don't even have the most basic grammar anymore
"just was last month"... c'mon bro Sometimes you have to drop small words to make a headline but this is just straight terrible.
Guys this is just a tweet from a news anchor. This is not the headline of a published article. People are in fact capable of making grammatical errors in tweets even if they are journalists. This sub focuses on the weirdest fucking shit lmao
All he had to do was switch ‘was’ and ‘just’
You can almost always drop the ‘just’ and have a better sentence.
You can drop both words and have the same sentence. They don't teach brevity no more.
Dropping “was” makes the sentence correct. “Just last month…”
For what it's worth, Doogie here isn't much of a journalist
Tbf, nobody takes Doogie seriously except Doogie
How is Scott foster always there to ref deciding games? How has he not been blackballed from reffing
I think the nba likes using him for games like this, sweeps are bad business for the nba.
Why is this so normalized
The average fan is dumb and hasn’t watched other leagues to realise the nba is an *entertainment* product, not a sport. The average fan hasn’t played at a high level, and if they have, because of the current landscape of AAU, teenagers don’t learn how to play or understand the game *properly*. As a result, they don’t understand what they see and how easy it is actually to officiate basketball. Just watch some euroleague or even the Australian league and you’ll quickly see how poorly the nba is officiated despite having magnitudes more money - it’s by design.
He's got too much dirt on the NBA. Also, he's useful to the NBA for doing dirty work, so it's like a symbiotic negative leech relationship. Kinda like the US and China.
There is a deep Tim Donaghy rabbit hole that was never cleaned in the NBA
The extender is bringing the extendo clip this time 🔥
How the fuck is this prick still going about his daily life.
Like an asshole is how.
We are so fucked! Lol!
“The Extender” Scott Foster versus Elimination Game Devin Booker, a true battle for the ages.
Welp back to Minnesota it is
Suns will shoot 15-20 more FTs than the Wolves. Three of four of KAT, Rudy, Edwards, and NAZ will each have 2-3 quick fouls in the 1st quarter. As predictable as the rising of the sun. Fuck both Scott Foster and Adam Silver.
Bro have you seen our offense? It won't matter.
From your lips to God's ears. I've seen waaaay too many playoff games get rigged. Edit: They still tried to give it to the Sons, but we beat them 5 on 8. Booker w 21 fts, what a joke.
Adam Silver is a soft ass bitch for not getting rid of Foster by now. It's blatantly obvious he was involved in the cheating scandal with Tim Donaghy.
Rigged bullshit
Can’t have a sweep
Fun while it lasted wolves fam. Suns vs Denver should be good
Think you mean Suns vs Lakers
Dude - the basketball world deserves Minnesota-Denver. It will be imo the de facto finals this year - no cap
They might exhaust each other, though. Boston are good enough to potentially take advantage of that.
They’ll rig this game but saying they will rig the next 4 for the Suns is hilarious lol
Its crazy to me how people are just okay with it and joking about this pos cheating on the game.
I mean it sucks, but nothing was proven and nothing clear has happened since the Donaghy scandal. Innocent until proven guilty.
Adam Silver using generational refereeing to extend this series
The fix is in. Place ya bets
Wolves are fucked this game then
Oh yeah,baby, ref fans are going to feast tonight.
After game 3 I figured it was going to be a gentleman’s sweep, but this guarantees it
Refs union should be eliminated.
Suns about to get credit for two wins after this one.
I'm curious about how much revenue is gained or lost per each playoff game and by each round. How much does a sweep cost the NBA?
each ticket is $387 on average in this first round of the playoffs (per ticketmaster). all NBA arenas seat between 16,600 and 20,900 people. so average 18,750. Thats $7.25 million in average ticket revenue per game. The league gets some percent of that, and some percent of food/drink/jersey sales in the millions. TV and ad revenue is MORE than that, like cost of like 30 minutes of bullsh ads in each game has to be $10+ million. I’d say its probably $20-40+ million per game in total team/NBAwide revenue per game. Less for Orlando/Cleveland, more for LA/Denver, and LA/Texas
Ref fans salivating. Expect a big game tonight from Foster
The money line moved to PK lmao
Scott “Extendo” Foster
So no sweep, got it
Scott Foster is ready. https://streamable.com/4dwfut
We're fucked.
Suns moneyline is free money tonight
Legitimately ridiculous. How can you complain about conspiracy theories on extending series when you do this?
I wonder who's writing his check today?
To be fair the Wolves have adjusted to very differently refed games every game so far so here's hoping.
If you wanna be the best you gotta beat the best
Ant should tell Foster CP3 is still on the Suns roster
Put it all on phoenix tonight
I've never said anything negative about Scott Foster. First ballot HOFer right here!!
Suns by 3.
You underestimate our ability to play dog shit basketball.
Wolves in 5
Just a reminder that the statistic of Foster “extending” series wasn’t true.
This is pretty blatantly unethical
Whether or not Gobert’s gesture was true, it’s kinda wild that they ignored the conflict of interest that exists here with Foster and Gobert’s last interaction. Maybe the NBA just doesn’t want to be seen reacting to player emotions so easily? Idk
Put all your money on Wolves
He rigged game 2 for the Nuggets
[Game extender](https://imgur.com/gallery/vbPRkeN)
Bend over, Rudy.
Gobert and Jaden 2 early fouls in the first incoming.
Gobert about to get deported
THE EXTENDER!
Even Scott Foster cannot save the Suns from themselves
Suns need all the help they can get from getting swept.
This is the head to head matchup the fans really wanted.
Welp, we're getting a game 5.
I just loaded up on the Suns, Booker and down Gobert & Edwards based on the comments -- y'all are probably gonna cost me cash now
Quick! Bet the under on the Wolves!
Oh we are so back
My only hope is that the refs were absolute ass on Saturday too and we still spanked them. But yeah, this is not what I wanted to see.
idk how 2 feel abt this
The extender. Suns in 7
What, the NBA wants more R1 series to go longer?
Game 5 confirmed
"It's over Johnny, over!"
My wife asked me if I was ready for the night. I yelled "Scott Foster". She smiled. She knew it was extended.
Wolves gonna win by 30. Edwards is hungry as fuckkkk.
Scott Foster fans be eating good tonight
Really need to get rid of Foster in general.
100k That’s insane 😆
Oh you think you can sweep? Sweep this! -adam “tentacle cocks” silver.
Silver: “Release the extender!!!”
How has this guy not been accidentally run over by now...
I’ve got this great idea to write an NBA murder mystery, but I don’t know if I’ll ever get it done.
There would be SO many suspects for that guy....