Not a Heat/Lebron fan but them refs...

[Yogi]

That shyt was rigged, and it was blatant. 3 of those fouls on Lebron were awful. The refs had a plan to Lebron.

 

[Schmoove]

maybe it's a little rigged, but any black man that's not watching it is a bytch azz nikka to me, i rather watch that shyt than reality shows...Kobe/Bron/Melo > all that fukkery on tv

what the fukk u going watch nikka?

NFL Network. A REAL mans sport.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Can't even make this shyt up

 

[MooseMouthMthafuga]

How is it not a bigger story that Ed Malloy, Joey Crawford, Mike Callahan, and Tim Donaghy all went to the same high school? Or that the guy that ended up in the jail is by far the most legitimate referee of the 4?

Is this actual factual?

 

[Joe Sixpack]

Wait till game 6. Pacers will be in foul trouble within 5 minutes. They won't even be able to breathe on Lebron without getting a foul called. shyt happens.

 

[Isaiah Bradley]

the one on Hill's drive was ticky tack. The one on Stephenson was. Lance grabbed him, moved him out the way and Bron just kept his body between him and the ball, one of the worse calls I've seen in a while.
I thought the charge was a charge live, but on replay it was clearly a block, more understandable to miss that one.

On the charge, I thought the defender needed to be stationary. PG was moving and then quickly adjusted to get in front of LBJ

 

[Brozay]

LETS USE SOME COMMON SENSE HERE...

@Bilz SAID THEY WENT TO THE SAME HIGH SCHOOL...
HE DIDNT SAY THEY WERE CLASSMATES...

I STRONGLY DOUBT JOEY CRAWFORDS OLD ASS WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL DURING THE SAME YEARS AS DONAGHY...

WHO KNOWS IF ANY OF THE GUYS NAMED ACTUALLY WENT TO HS WITH DONAGHY...

GOTTA LOOK AT THE WAY IT WAS WORDED.



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I read into this a lot more last night

They all came from the same HS - not necessarily the same years
All 4 guys were hired to be NBA refs BEFORE their 31st birthdays - that is curious right there, that is a seriously accelerated process
The 2 bookies charged in the Donaghy scandal also both attended the same HS

Ed Rush (director of officiating from '98-'03) has ties to the Philly area too, and was the one who hired Malloy & Callahan. On top of that, Crawford helped get Donaghy his job

Ed Rush was the guy caught up in that 2013 Pac 10 scandal - where he offered the referees $5000, or a trip to Cancun to eject, or call a tech on Arizona's coach Sean Miller from a game against UCLA. He ended up getting called for a bullshyt tech and Zona lost by 2.

Joey Crawford resigned from the NBA in'98 after pleading guilty to filing false income tax returns in an airplane ticket scheme he was running with NBA officials. Stern reinstated him a year later


NBA officiating is dirty as all fukk breh.

 

[duckbutta]

the people who report on the nba have a vested interest, whether it be corporate sponsors involved or ratings/advertisement.

This is true...everyone seems to be in on it...like...JVG and Mark barely mentioned Lebron getting 5 fouls in 13 minutes...they just left it as "with Lebron on the bench"...

If you watched it...at the very end JVG slipped up a little bit...Mark said something like "Indiana has to really be happy with the intensity they are playing with" and JVG said "I'm sure they are happier with the free throw disparity"...and there was like 2 minutes of silence after that

In game 3 for San Antonio...OKC shot 22 freethrows in the 3rd and the Spurs shot...0...Reggie and Steve did not mention it one time...they just acted like it didn't even happen...

In game 4 Westbrook stole the ball from Parker...while standing out of bounds...like...he somehow stole the ball while almost running into the scorers table. and TNT actually showed the replay of him being out of bounds...and the ref is right there...and steve kerr actually says "well you can't blame the ref for missing that one westbrook is just so fast and athletic"

I'm going to be going out of the country at the end of the week and I was really bummed out at not seeing the finals cause that shyt is going to be on at like fukking 2 in the morning where i am...but every since that OKC Clippers game 5 the officiating has been so bad across the board in just about every game as to be unwatchable...

That Heat and Pacers game last night just de-evolved into a wrestling match around the end of the 3rd quarter...you couldn't get away with some of the stuff they were doing in a little league game

It also still boggles my mind how Joey Crawford is allowed to even officiate a spurs game...where the league had to suspend him for getting into an altercation with Tim Duncan...the league literally felt that Joey Crawfords actions against Duncan and the Spurs team were so egregious that they just outright suspended him from the league completely...and now he is back...officiating the Spurs in last year finals and in the WCF this year...come on now...this is just impossible...i can't think in other situation that a person gets so into it with somebody that you have to suspend them from their job...and then they come back...and you pair them with said person again...