Newsflash ESPN says "something" about the Officialiting

[kaji157]

It was J.A. Adande in his "Daily Dime" column.

Here is the link: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime

And here is the extract:

Five fourth-quarter Spurs turnovers helped the Thunder complete their comeback in Game 6. Three of them came on offensive foul calls, during a stretch when every time the whistle blew it seemed to go against the Spurs. When Popovich wasn't registering complaints to the nearest official he turned to an assistant to say, incredulously, "You've got to be kidding me."

Yes, the Thunder got some favorable calls on their way to the NBA Finals. That shouldn't detract from their effort, including Durant drawing what everyone agreed was his first charge of the season.

And also Harper in the live Dime


That was … controversial: Some really questionable calls will end up tainting what ended up being a truly fantastic display of basketball over these six games. We saw two teams play at a high level almost every quarter and truly battle. Sad that the officiating will be what's remembered.

-- Zach Harper, Daily Dime Live

[DesignatedT]

Just too obvious.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

good.........

[Trainwreck2100]

so it was his first charge of the season, and it wasn't even a charge

[dunkman]

Yeah the refs stole the show and decided that game. The Spurs were to win, no question about it. Not sure about game 7 though. The Spurs were to be tired for that game.

[PublicOption]

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[SA210]

Good fuck those corrupt motherfuckers. I will fucking celebrate if the day ever came that Stern was busted and went on trial.

[Russo21]

Corruption is everywhere around us.

It's such a shame the NBA is one of those places. Such a shame.

[TE]

I'm glad it's being publicized more. Hopefully those involved in the incident get life threatening occurrences.

[Thompson]

I still can't believe the NBA's gall for giving us Joey Crawford in a closeout game after his history with us, including ejecting Duncan for laughing and blowing another playoff closeout game for us vs. the Lakers when he ignored an obvious Derek Fisher foul on Brent Barry.

Joey Crawford should never be allowed to ref one of our playoff games - you don't have to announce it, just don't schedule him for us.

[desflood]

I still can't believe the NBA's gall for giving us Joey Crawford in a closeout game after his history with us, including ejecting Duncan for laughing and blowing another playoff closeout game for us vs. the Lakers when he ignored an obvious Derek Fisher foul on Brent Barry.

Joey Crawford should never be allowed to ref one of our playoff games - you don't have to announce it, just don't schedule him for us.
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Never, ever will I be able to believe that Crawford will be able to be impartial when the Spurs are concerned - I don't care how "rehabilitated" anyone says he is.

[Russo21]

I still can't believe the NBA's gall for giving us Joey Crawford in a closeout game after his history with us, including ejecting Duncan for laughing and blowing another playoff closeout game for us vs. the Lakers when he ignored an obvious Derek Fisher foul on Brent Barry.

Joey Crawford should never be allowed to ref one of our playoff games - you don't have to announce it, just don't schedule him for us.

+1 he is a fucken c u n t

[Namundy]

Corruption is everywhere around us.

It's such a shame the NBA is one of those places. Such a shame.

They may have been bad calls, but corruption? Let's be serious.

[thispego]

Anyone who doesn't believe the fix was in is just plain stupid. Sorry, but there it is.

[sammy]

Yeah, the fix was in! Sad that Spurs were robbed in this game! Shameful! Won't root for OKC Cheaters!:bang

[jag]

I don't think it was a "fix", but I do think the officiating was horrible.

[boutons_deux]

corrupt, fixed officiating PLUS sub-40% shooting in 2nd half was too much.

KD is gonna be pimped by the NBA at Jordan level, the "star system" like old Hollywood.

[Harry Callahan]

Seven points taken off the board that impacted the Spurs in a negative way. This was a 2-6 game for the last half of the 4th. It's a tough pill to swallow when you don't get a realistic chance to go to the finals very often.

The anointing oil was put on the Thunder by Mr. Stern's henchman. I wish I could frame it another way, but I can't.

The Thunder are terrific, but the Spurs were fighting more than those guys late in the game. It's a shame that this Spurs team had to go out this way in what was a last hurrah.

[lefty]

I don't think it was a "fix", but I do think the officiating was horrible.
I think it was a fix

Joey is actually a good ref, he is just a biased SOB

[BurningMoNk]

They may have been bad calls, but corruption? Let's be serious.

lol Tim Donaughey already showed us how there was corruption. do you not remember?

[Russ]

lol Tim Donaughey already showed us how there was corruption. do you not remember?

Donaughey's corruption was for himself, though. Garden variety selfishness.

Not in concert with an NBA agenda.

[hater]

Just too obvious.

yup

it's like Stern don't give a fuck nomore

[NRHector]

Donaughey's corruption was for himself, though. Garden variety selfishness.

Not in concert with an NBA agenda.

may be Donaughey's corruption was for himself but now the corruption is for the NBA

[Budkin]

The refs cost us at least 10 pts and there isn't shit we can do about it. Arrrrrggghhhh

[Spurs9]

I'm not going to play the ref card for the Spurs, OKC was a good team. But I never believed it in the past, but I'm seriously starting to believe more and more that the league is indeed rigged. The Heat game tonight will be very intresting.

[texbumTHElife]

Skip Bayless blasted the officials via twitter and he is an OKC fan.

[Spurs9]

Just look at NO getting the #1 pick, perfect example of the corruption of Stern.