Raptors Star Fred VanVleet Blasts NBA Referees, ‘F***ing Terrible Tonight’

Toronto Raptors star Fred VanVleet blasted NBA referees Wednesday night … calling a few of them “d***s” who are attempting to “f*** the game up.”

VanVleet got a technical nasty — his eighth of the season — from NBA ref Ben Taylor with 7:02 staying in the 3rd quarter versus the Clippers … and the point player was plainly pissed about the tech when talking with press reporters in his postgame press conference.

“I don’t mind, I’ll take a fine, I don’t really care,” VanVleet stated. “I thought Ben Taylor was f***ing terrible tonight. I think that on most nights, you know out of the three [officials], there’s one or two that just f*** the game up. It’s been like that a couple of games in a row.”

He continued … “[Losing to] Denver was tough, obviously. You come out tonight, competing pretty hard, and I get a bulls*** tech that changes the whole dynamic of the game, changed the whole flow of the game.”

“Most of the refs are trying hard. I like a lot of the refs, they’re trying hard, they’re pretty fair, they communicate well. And then you got the other ones who just want to be d***s and just kind of f*** the game up. And nobody’s coming to see that s***. They come to see the players.”

FVV stated the factor the Raptors lost, 108-100, to the Clippers is that they got beat … however he did state handling authorities who appear to have beef with him makes it an uphill struggle for his group.

“I think we’re losing a little bit of the fabric of what the NBA is and was,” VanVleet stated. “It’s been disappointing this season. You could look up most of my techs this year have been with Ben Taylor officiating. At a certain point, as a player, you feel it’s personal.”

“That’s never a good place to be.”