Referees are an essential part of the game of basketball, but Stephen Curry could do without them.
The back-to-back MVP recently shared his thoughts on potentially replacing refs with computer technology.
“I would love that,” Curry said, during a Q&A at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco last week.
The Golden State Warriors star shone light to the incident in Game 6 of the NBA Finals where he chucked his game-worn mouthpiece into the crowd, fortuitously hitting Andrew Forbes, son of Cleveland Cavaliers minority owner Nate Forbes, on the shoulder.
“I would have to throw my mouthpiece at those new inventions,” he said.
While taking the human error factor out of the game might seem like a great idea at first, the controversy and banter of who's right or wrong is part of what makes sports so great.
Asking a player to make every shot, snatch every rebound and block every shot is like asking a referee to get every call right.
The humanity in sports is what makes the game so entertaining. One player's victory is another's defeat, and the referees have been intertwined in the DNA of the league from the very start.
To take them out now would be, well, inhuman.
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