Even NBA officials are busting out the ol’ scoreboard argument nowadays.
Referee Scott Foster, who was working the Los Angeles Lakers-San Antonio Spurs game at Staples Center on Sunday, was heckled by a Lakers fan over a call he made and clapped back with this great response, per Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times.
A Laker fan heckled official Scott Foster about a call. He pointed up at the scoreboard where it said the Spurs lead the Lakers by 21.
— Tania Ganguli (@taniaganguli) February 26, 2017
The lopsided margin ultimately held up as the Spurs wound up winning by the final of 119-98. As for Foster, he has often been criticized for his perceived bias against the home teams. But there’s not really much of an argument to that effect when it’s a 20-plus point game, so credit to Foster for that simple yet epic comeback (and for handling the Staples Center hecklers better than, say, Dwight Howard does).
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