DeRozan fined $15K for criticizing officials

Toronto Raptors shooting guard DeMar DeRozan has been fined $15,000 for criticizing the officiating after the Raptors' 127-125 loss to the Golden State Warriors on Saturday night.

"It's frustrating, being out there feeling like you're playing five-on-eight," DeRozan told reporters after the game. "Some of those calls were terrible, period."

The end of the game featured a few 50-50 calls - including a foul on Jakob Poeltl in the final minute and a reversed out-of-bounds call with three seconds to play - that went against the Raptors.

DeRozan took particular umbrage with the game-sealing out-of-bounds call, suggesting that possession (initially awarded to the Raptors) shouldn't have been reversible because the moment he was retroactively ruled out had preceded the play that triggered the video review.

"I thought you couldn't even do that," DeRozan said. "I'm not even a referee and I know that rule. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong."

The league office indeed suggested DeRozan was wrong in its last-two-minute report the following day, explaining: "Referees were able to review two aspects of this out-of-bounds play since they were part of the same sequence."

The report also confirmed that the foul call on Poeltl was correct, and cited just one officiating mistake in the final two minutes that could be determined as such without the use of enhanced video or a stopwatch: a non-call on a foul committed by Raptors point guard Fred VanVleet.

The fine was the second levied against DeRozan in the past week. He was docked $25,000 for a confrontation with Goran Dragic after the Raptors' loss to the Miami Heat last Tuesday.