Jalen Brunson and Kristaps Porzingis both received technical fouls for flopping in the NBA season opener between the Dallas Mavericks and the New York Knicks. The NBA Referees account later admitted that they made a mistake in issuing the technical foul to Brunson. The blown call by the referees was considered pivotal in the Knicks' loss to the Celtics. The NBA officials apologized for the bad flop call.
Referees admitted to botching a pivotal call in the Celtics-Knicks season opener https://t.co/zZoh2Q67GZ
NBA officials made such a stupendously bad flop call against the Knicks they had to apologize for it https://t.co/59RGZtI7Yi https://t.co/T8aoTGPims
NBA refs admit to blowing call that hurt Knicks enormously in loss to Celtics https://t.co/XI2r5ISUiI https://t.co/ImUzhtpYEZ
The NBA Referees account admitted they got Jalen Brunson's flopping technical wrong https://t.co/rCoBw2XX4N
Kristaps Porzingis got a tech for flopping... https://t.co/wYPxFeFXHR
Jalen Brunson got called for a technical foul for flopping. Melo wasn't feeling it 😅 https://t.co/VEulBKnZwC
Kristaps Porzingis received a technical foul for flopping. https://t.co/2wKY8dDmOJ
kristaps porzingis just got the first technical foul ever for flopping, in madison square garden against the knicks
Kristaps Porziņģis just got hit with a flopping tech. Welcome to a new but still the same era of Celtics basketball
Kristaps Porzingis was just given the first tech for flopping of the season.
Porzingis just got the season's first flopping tech. #Celtics #Knicks
Who had Kristaps for the first flopping tech of the year?