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Mike Brown was so upset with the officiating Sunday night that, after he was ejected, he pulled out a laptop to critique the referees at Fiserv Forum.
Brown was ejected early in the fourth quarter of the Sacramento Kings’ 143-142 overtime loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Sunday when he stormed onto the court and started screaming at referee Intae Hwang while cutting him off along the sideline. Brown had to be held back by players, and he was quickly directed off the court.
So during the rest of the fourth quarter and overtime, Brown got to work. He whipped up a presentation of sorts and came prepared to his postgame news conference with clips of mistakes he felt the referees made.
"The referees are human, and they're going to make mistakes,” Brown said. “But you just hope, A, that there's some sort of consistency, and, B, there's some sort of communication between the refs. The refs tonight, they were great. They communicated with me all night. … But the consistency that I’ve seen tonight, in my opinion, wasn’t there.”
Brown pointed out two plays specifically. The first was when Bucks star Damian Lillard — who hit a wild game-winning buzzer-beater in overtime — drew a foul on a shot from behind the 3-point line in the third quarter. He then pointed to a play in the fourth quarter when De’Aaron Fox was hooked by the Bucks’ Cam Payne in the fourth quarter but didn’t get a foul call.
“They’re human. They’re good people. They’re gonna make mistakes,” Brown said of the officials. “But we can’t interpret a rule two different ways. … I’m beside myself. Now, we had a chance to win the game and we didn’t get it done. But I’m telling you, man, to go through that, it’s tough, man. It’s tough to go through that.”
Brown was relatively calm throughout the entire presentation. His reaction was far different than what Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajaković did after his team fell to the Los Angeles Lakers earlier this month. Rajaković went off on an explosive rant and pounded on the table while calling the referees and the NBA shameful, which led to a $25,000 fine.
But as Brown was very openly criticizing the officials, and he used a prop, the NBA is sure to hit him with a fine in the coming days.
The Kings rallied back from a 12-point hole in the fourth quarter to force overtime and took a two-point lead in the final seconds of the extra period. Lillard, however, drilled a deep buzzer-beater from just inside the logo to seal the one-point win for Milwaukee.
Fox led the Kings with 32 points in the loss after he shot 12-of-26 from the field. Malik Monk added 28 points off the bench, and Kevin Huerter dropped 26 points on six 3-pointers. The Kings have now lost two straight games headed into Tuesday’s matchup with the Phoenix Suns and sit in sixth place in the Western Conference standings.
Lillard led the Bucks with 29 points and eight assists, and he made five 3-pointers in the win. Giannis Antetokounmpo finished with a triple-double with 27 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and Malik Beasley dropped 23 points. The Bucks have won three straight.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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