Darius Garland has certainly let his opinions loose since he appeared on his former Cleveland Cavaliers teammate Lonzo Ball's podcast "Ball in the Family" and one of his more outspoken opinions is aimed at a familiar target for NBA players, coaches and fans alike: the referees. 

Referees and the power they hold over the flow of a game with their officiating decisions naturally attract a lot of ire, especially if their decisions go against the favor of a player or team, with many letting their outrage loose on the court and press conferences, or even more likely, through closed doors. 

Every player on the wrong end of a foul feels as though they're in the right either because they feel they're innocent of the wrongdoing they've been charged with or they may even feel like they were the ones who were victims of a foul. 

Garland certainly seems to have that sentiment himself and while he was on the podcast he shared a few ideas that the Los Angeles Clippers star thinks the league should implement as a system of accountability for referees who reach the wrong verdicts on the court.

"I think refs need to have a press conference after the game.. Refs miss a lot," Garland said. "They should definitely get fined."

It's not a radical idea for a NBA player to want more accountability from referees, who's word law more often than not in a game, even with the existence of official reviews and coaches' challenges to try and take a closer look at a call they feel didn't go the way it should.

But, Garland's proposed solution does trend in a more radical direction. As of now, there is some form of postgame accountability for referees in the form of Last Two Minutes Reports, but those reports do exactly that: cover the last two minutes of a game, without any retrospection on controversial calls made earlier in the game.

A fining system like the one that Garland proposed, especially a publicly announced fine, doesn't exist. The NBA does have a disciplinary system for their referees, but any action is handled behind closed doors and a referee actually being removed from their post is even more rare. 

The kind of process that Garland has proposed is a far cry from happening, but the fact he has such strong feelings about the apparent lack of accountability from referees at all represents the desire for transparency from officials that players like Garland have.