C-Mac opened Tuesday morning’s show sounding off on the officiating in the Knicks’ loss to the Rockets, which culminated in a foul call on Jalen Brunson with 0.3 seconds left to decide the game.
Officials admitted afterward that the foul should have never been called, and the game should have went to overtime. Instead, New York was left with its third straight loss, and C-Mac was left venting about the way Brunson is treated by NBA officials.
“I’m one of the last people who will start a show with ‘This team got robbed.’ It’s hard not to do that today,” C-Mac said. “We’ve debated forever whether [Brunson] is a legit superstar and a No. 1 on a championship team…I think the referees just answered their vote on the subject, because they do not treat Brunson as a superstar in this league. Plain and simple.”
Brunson was whistled for a game-deciding foul when there was minimal to no contact present, and C-Mac says Brunson never gets calls when there is much more contact involved.
“Watch the game. He has contact left and right, and he gets no calls,” C-Mac said. “He does not get treated like a superstar at all…they let Houston play rough. This game was played that way the entire game. No calls for Brunson.”