{"id":120549,"date":"2021-12-04T23:21:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/lakers-fans-are-biggest-complainers-about-officiating-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2021-12-04T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:22:10","slug":"lakers-fans-are-biggest-complainers-about-officiating-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/lakers-fans-are-biggest-complainers-about-officiating-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Fans Are Biggest Complainers About Officiating, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/lakers\" rel=\"noopener\">Lakers<\/a> fans apparently are the least happy NBA fanbase when it comes to on-court rulings, according to a\u00a0recent study.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Using a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thescore.com\/news\/2242797\" rel=\"noopener\">month of\u00a0Twitter data<\/a> and tracking negative tweets about\u00a0officiating among each NBA team\u2019s supporters, a study from\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/betonline.ag\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Betonline.ag<\/a>\u00a0found that Los Angeles fans are the league\u2019s\u00a0biggest complainers regarding officiating. Coming in hot behind Los Angeles are the Knicks and Nets, ranking as the second and third most upset-about-officiating fans in the league, respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nba\/clippers\/news\/laker-fans-revealed-to-complain-most-about-nba-referees-officiating\" rel=\"noopener\">Sports Illustrated<\/a> points out, the Lake Show has the largest fanbase in the NBA, so it wouldn\u2019t be hard to assume that fans would top such a list and be the most vocal.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, teams with the biggest markets are seen complaining the most on their Twitter feeds, except for the Boston Celtics, who rank all the way at No. 16 on the list. The\u00a0Portland Trail Blazers sit right at the bottom of the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ranking may make\u00a0sense to those keeping up with concerns those a part of the Lakers themselves have, especially given that people within the Lakers organization have felt there have been officiating discrepancies in recent games.\u00a0Earlier this season, Lakers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nba\/news\/frank-vogel-mind-boggling-anthony-davis-got-zero-free-throws-vs-bucks-lakers-voicing-complaints-to-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head coach Frank Vogel<\/a> said he contacted the league regarding how little free throws he felt Anthony Davis was getting in certain scenarios.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"suitcase-ad\" \/>\n<p>\u201cI think Anthony Davis getting zero free throw attempts is a little bit mind-boggling,\u201d Vogel said following a Lakers-Bucks matchup, where the Bucks shot 24 free throws compared to the Lakers\u2019 12. \u201cAnd it\u2019s something we\u2019ve been communicating to the league about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study follows a late November game at the\u00a0Gainbridge Fieldhouse, where the Lakers faced off against the Indiana Pacers. During the match-up, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/sports\/pacers-fans-sitting-courtside-ejected-from-game-after-lebron-james-pointed-them-out-to-officials\" rel=\"noopener\">LeBron James pointed out a few unruly fans<\/a> in the crowd, and they were swiftly ejected from the venue. LeBron later claimed that \u201cwhen obscene gestures and language come into it, [it] can\u2019t be tolerated.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/sports\/lakers-fans-officials-complain-study\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lakers fans apparently are the least happy NBA fanbase when it comes to on-court rulings, according to a\u00a0recent study.\u00a0 Using a month of\u00a0Twitter data and tracking negative tweets about\u00a0officiating among each NBA team\u2019s supporters, a study from\u00a0Betonline.ag\u00a0found that Los Angeles fans are the league\u2019s\u00a0biggest complainers regarding officiating. Coming in hot behind Los Angeles are the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2427,555,105,106,5,744,327,7,100,8,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthony-davis","category-basketball","category-dfp-sports","category-dfp-sports-basketball","category-featured","category-lakers","category-los-angeles","category-music","category-nba","category-news","category-tier-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120551,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120549\/revisions\/120551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshestfm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}