Referee Joey Crawford makes it all about himself again while making a call (Video)

If you’re Joey Crawford, you’d think you would have learned by now that absolutely nobody finds this charming or useful.

The longtime NBA referee decided to make sure every eye in the arena was on him again last night, forgetting that he has a whistle and the ability to immediately stop play and encourage everyone to look over him already, diving out from the baseline to nearly the three-point line to make a loose ball foul call on Memphis’ Zach Randolph.

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Randolph was in the midst of a fantastic game for his Grizzlies, scoring 13 first quarter points on his way to a 22-point, 12-rebound, four-assist, three-steal, zero-turnover night as the Grizzlies downed an impressive Sacramento Kings team in Sacramento. Crawford may not have been entirely off in his call – King Reggie Evans had been bugging Randolph all night and it appears as if Evans was whacked by Zach on a rebound attempt – but the players and scorer’s table can see you just fine if you call it from your initial spot.

Joey Crawford didn’t want just the scorer’s table to note his work. He wanted the Sacramento stadium’s entire audience and the TV cameras to bask in his magnificence as well. Because this is what Joey Crawford does:

This is a game played in between two sidelines filled with needless dance teams, while needless men in mascot outfits needlessly run around while needless music blares from giant speakers in between bouts of needless t-shirt canon exercises. I get it – this game is supposed to be big, goofy fun, and it’s OK to go over the top with things. Joey Crawford can be a very good, fair and accurate ref at times; and you know this because fans from each and every NBA team thinks he has a bias in place just for them. He has to stop doing this, though.

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