After the Jazz’s previous meeting with the Heat, back on Dec. 2 in Miami, center Rudy Gobert ripped the NBA’s officiating as “”s---” and “inconsistent,” partly for the late-game shove against teammate Donovan Mitchell that did not get called, partly for his own minor contact with Dwayne Wade that did, and partly for a whole host of other accumulated grievances.
Last week vs. Houston, a pair of highly questionable early foul calls (which some attributed to referee payback for his Miami remarks) had him fuming and ultimately resulted in a single-technical ejection less than 3 minutes into the game.