Controversial NBA ref facing investigation over alleged burner account
NBA referee Eric Lewis is in the course of a burner account controversy that the league is now launching an investigation into.
An avatar-less Twitter account: @CuttliffBlair, listed below the username “Blair Cuttliff,” is the account in query after different customers discovered curious tweets in defence of Lewis and different NBA officers — which had been posted by Twitter person Pablo Escobarner.
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Long-time NBA reporter Marc Stein first reported that the league has opened an investigation, and if tied to the account, Lewis may face self-discipline.
The potential subject the account creates is a league rule in opposition to referees commenting on officiating publicly with out authorisation.
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Lewis, 52, was additionally in the course of one other controversy that unfolded on social media, the place an outdated picture of his household in Celtics gear was found on Twitter.
It dropped at consideration Boston’s abnormally good file in video games he’s officiated — profitable greater than 60 per cent of the time.
Lakers star LeBron James reacted on social media to the Lewis news.
“This Eric Lewis (poop emoji) true???,” James wrote
As did Bulls guard Patrick Beverley, who when with the Lakers in January famously grabbed a digital camera in a recreation in opposition to the Celtics to point out Lewis an image a name he although he missed in opposition to James.
“Laughed at me when I grabbed the camera (camera emoji) yea aight,” Beverly wrote on Saturday.
Lewis has been a referee within the NBA for practically 20 years, in keeping with the league’s web site, and has officiated a number of playoff video games this season, together with Game 7 of the Celtics and 76ers Eastern Conference semifinal sequence.
A recreation Boston gained.
This story initially appeared on the New York Post and has been reposted with permission
