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Los Angeles Sparks All-Star Kelsey Plum has had it with the WNBA referees and she or he’s not going to take it anymore. After dropping in extra time on Monday evening to the Golden State Valkyries, Plum went off on the officiating in a rant that may clearly lead to her getting fined by the league.
Kelsey Plum’s large grievance was that after enjoying 41 minutes and repeatedly driving to the basket in the course of the sport she solely had six free throw makes an attempt.
“I’m going to get fined for saying this, however I drive greater than anybody within the league. So to shoot six free throws is f—— absurd,” Kelsey Plum informed the media after the sport. “I obtained scratches on my face, I obtained scratches on my physique and these guards on the opposite crew get these ticky-tack fouls and I’m sick of it. I get fouled like that each possession. Rickea [Jackson] will get fouled like that within the put up on a regular basis they usually don’t name it. I don’t know what else to do. However it’s actually irritating although.”
“There are a number of photographs on the finish of the sport, both going into the third, into the fourth, the place they’re simply coming and f—— swinging they usually simply don’t name something,” Plum continued. “I don’t perceive how that’s, six free throws. I’m enjoying 40 minutes, touching the paint on virtually each play. It’s absurd. It’s absurd.
“So I’m saying I’ll get fined for that and that’s tremendous, however I imply, and I wanted to make extra photographs like late sport, however they’re fouling the s— out of me each single play. I’m very annoyed with that. And I’m sick of it. I’m sick of it. I don’t know what I must do. I’ve talked to the refs good, I pray earlier than the sport. Like, f—. I’m over it.”
Los Angeles Sparks head coach Lynne Roberts agreed with Plum’s evaluation of the WNBA officiating.
“I might echo what Kelsey says… It’s not proper,” Roberts informed the press.
Curiously, throughout her seven-plus seasons within the WNBA, Kelsey Plum has averaged simply 2.9 free throw makes an attempt per sport. This yr, she is averaging 5.6 free throws per sport, by far probably the most in her profession. Apparently, no less than in her opinion, it nonetheless isn’t sufficient.
