Fred VanVleet is no stranger to blowing up at NBA officials, but his tiff with the referees in the closing seconds of the Houston Rockets’ 104-98 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers was extreme even by his standards.
It’s not immediately clear what VanVleet was so upset about, but eagle-eyed lip-readers online appeared to catch him calling each ref “a b—-” — and nearly poking one in the eye! — while getting ejected with 4.1 seconds left in the game on Saturday night:
Luckily for VanVleet, his seemingly inevitable suspension won’t be quite as long as the initial video made it appear, as an alternate angle made it
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