J.J. Redick got ejected because a ref absurdly didn't like how he rolled the ball to him

Really.

Some referees and umpires have a tendency to get hypersensitive over any perceived slight by a player — looking at you, Angel Hernandez — but you probably won’t find a worse ejection than what unfolded during the Pelicans-Celtics game.

New Orleans battled back from a 24-point deficit in Sunday’s matchup with Boston, and as the Pelicans were chipping away at that lead in the fourth quarter, Aaron Nesmith was called for a foul defending J.J. Redick.

Redick had been T’d up 20 seconds earlier — a call that was clearly on the mind of official Josh Tiven as Redick returned the ball to him.

Redick returned the ball by putting some side spin on the bouncing pass, which forced Tiven to block the ball with his foot. For whatever reason, Tiven viewed that pass as worthy of a technical foul. That being the second technical, it resulted in Redick’s ejection.

Just ridiculous.

Redick was understandably stunned by the ejection and tried to make his case that he was just giving him the ball back. He didn’t chuck a baseball-style throw at the ref — he passed it underhand with some spin.

There’s no way that was an ejectable pass, and NBA fans were quite perplexed by the call.

Let’s hope the league takes another look at that and rescinds the technical foul. There’s no way that T was deserved.