DeMcarus Cousins supports Devin Booker’s comments against refs in Game 2

Cousins supports Booker’s comments:

During his playing career, Cousins had a very famous rocky relationships with referees. His fiery and passionate personality saw him get 143 technical and 17 ejections. The 35-year-old has been on the end of some terrible officiating and has gotten to hold no accountability against them. Cousins is understandably very on board of putting some rules or punishments in place to limit this type of behavior in the future.

In Wednesday’s game, the anger started because of the lack of communication from the referees. Booker was called for a technical foul because he was falling out of bounds and was trying to save the ball and threw it backwards, hitting Thunder center Jaylin Williams. Guard Alex Caruso saw the throw as intentional and told the refs to call the technical, which they were happy to comply.

Postgame Booker stated he wasn’t given an explanation on why he got the technical, and in his 11 years of basketball he’s never seen someone ask and receive that type of request. The five-time All-Star is a stoic person, but Game 2 was enough to put that to the side and call out the officiating misbalance.