NBA investigates referee’s fake Twitter account

The American journalist Marc Stein claims to have flushed out a fake twitter account used by an NBA referee, Eric Lewis, in order to highlight his decisions and defend the work of his colleagues. ESPN and The Athletic, two sports outlets, continued Stein’s work and confirmed that the American basketball league was investigating Lewis’ links to an account opened in the name of Blair Cuttliff (@CuttliffBlair), created in November 2015.

This is not the first time that fake twitter accounts have been exposed in the NBA. In 2020, Kevin Durant admitted to using several fake accounts to respond to fan criticism.