When the San Antonio Spurs selected UCLA forward Kyle Anderson with the penultimate pick in the first-round of the 2014 NBA draft, the choice was almost universally lauded. Anderson is far from a flashy player, and his unassuming-yet-versatile all-around game would seem to fit in absolutely perfectly with a savvy Spurs team that had just taken the 2013-14 NBA championship. Kyle was pegged as the next generation of Spurs-styled heady, a player to carry over as the team attempts to stave off age.
Part of that staving process means resting starters, as the Spurs did on Thursday with Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili sitting out a nationally-televised contest against the Houston Rockets. Their absence meant Anderson would be pushed into reserve duty – and the first minutes of his NBA career.
Anderson decided to start his career as an anti-Spur, however, by failing to tuck his jersey in after coming off the bench to spell Danny Green in the first quarter, and receiving a delay of game penalty even before a second had ticked off the clock.

Apparently referee Courtney Kirkland was so aghast that a tiny, little nub of jersey was sticking out of the back of the rookie’s shorts, and he thought that should warrant a whistle. We’ve rewound his move from the sidelines to the court several times and haven’t been able to see the front of his jersey, but it’s doubtful that Kyle had it so completely un-tucked that it would be worth the delay of game warning (which results in no extra free throws, though a second infraction does).
Perhaps Kirkland was shocked that a sainted Spur would do stray from anything that wasn’t fully fundamentally pure. Perhaps he thought the rookie needed a wake-up call.
Perhaps he should just chill out a little bit.
Perhaps Trey Kerby has a different take:

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Kyle Anderson looks like Stephen Curry if he had drank a gallon of milk every day as a kid.
— Taco Trey Kerby (@treykerby) November 7, 2014
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