[San Antonio Spurs](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/san-antonio-spurs) head coach Mitch Johnson was ticked off.
A charge had just been called on Luke Kornet. Johnson thought the refs were wrong. So as he called a timeout to challenge the call, Johnson also gave the refs a piece of his mind.
What came next was this:
* The refs overturned the call, giving the Spurs the ball.
* The refs gave Johnson a technical foul.
So he got punished for arguing a point that he was then proven correct about.
That seems wrong.
Jalen Brunson did miss the technical free throw for the [Knicks](https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/new-york-knicks), so the ball didn't lie.
But it's still an odd concept. Amazon Prime Video's color commentator Stan Van Gundy, himself a former NBA coach, said that the tech should be rescinded if the challenge overturns the call.
He's got a point.
It always felt a bit off for a coach to get a tech when replay shows the coach to be correct, even before challenges.
Now that the refs can go over and actually change the call, it feels even worse.
Clearly, a coach could still cross a line. But there's gotta be some leeway if the refs turned out to be wrong after all.
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