Joey Crawford was all fired up during Game 4 of the NBA Finals.
You knew we weren’t making it out of Game 4 without at least one Joey Crawford highlight. As soon as you see Jo Jo Dancer’s name on the pregame sheet, you might as well pencil in some kind of histrionics.
In the latest edition of Joey Crawford: Hardass Official, we see Crawford have some choice words for Timofey Mozgov, telling the Russian center to shut up.
Not that her bosses or interviewee would’ve appreciated it, but it would have made for spectacular television had Sage Steele asked Adam Silver about Crawford. Crawford is at the center of his own universe and lords over a game like Stalin of the hardwood. Hearing the commissioner’s impromptu take on the curmudgeonly ref would have been quite interesting.
And one more note on Crawford: does he make it through his career without a player ever successfully going after him? There’s a real chance of a Don Zimmer/Pedro Martinez moment, right? Like Crawford puffs out his chest and goes in on the wrong player at precisely the wrong moment. Next thing you know, Joey C. is picking himself up off the floor with the epiphany that “Hey, I’m in my 60s, maybe it’s time to pull off the throttle juuuuussssst a smidgen.”
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