Apparently the new rule about bitching to officials doesn't apply to Lebron

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already whining. i guess their bitching doesnt apply only in the playoffs

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but Mavs fans whining in the playoffs is ok? :spin

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Originally Posted by ponky

stop, drop and roll?

haha, just kidding...espn just showed the top ten plays of the nights in sports and lebron's in TWO of them, the timmy posterized play and another one where lebron does a left hand layup over duncan

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It looked more like Stern's golden boy pushed off Timmy to make him stagger. Besides, I wouldn't call it 'posterized'..the image that comes into my head when I hear that word is Vince Carter hammering home a dunk over Alonzo Mourning's head.

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Originally Posted by freedom&justice

It looked more like Stern's golden boy pushed off Timmy to make him stagger. Besides, I wouldn't call it 'posterized'..the image that comes into my head when I hear that word is Vince Carter hammering home a dunk over Alonzo Mourning's head.

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God that was such a sick dunk.

Stern's golden boy is the only one of the top four players in the league to not get T'd up, and he might just be the whiniest of them all. Wade, Melo, and I think Kobe have already gotten techs. Melo's the only one that's gotten tossed, though.
If Sheed had done even just a fraction of what Bron did he'd have gotten tossed in the first half! Dude was waving his hands around like a madman, talking animatedly to the refs with a frown on his face. Heck, Chauncey got T'd up for running to the other end of the floor after a foul call, and he never even looked at the effing refs; Elson got T'd up for 'taunting', Shaun Livingston for throwing his hands up, etc etc..

Stern's minions are just out of control, and they are so biased it's not even funny. :pctoss

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. It's the way the NBA has operated for decades. Dr. J got all the calls. Larry Bird got all the calls. Magic got all the calls. MJ got all the calls. Now LeBron gets all the calls. It's a "star" based league and the league wants its stars to be successful.

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Originally Posted by freedom&justice

It looked more like Stern's golden boy pushed off Timmy to make him stagger. Besides, I wouldn't call it 'posterized'..the image that comes into my head when I hear that word is Vince Carter hammering home a dunk over Alonzo Mourning's head.

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This is what I think of when I think "posterized":

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...426bradley.jpg

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Originally Posted by ShoogarBear

This is what I think of when I think "posterized":

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont...426bradley.jpg

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Hey, it's a league where superstars get the calls. Everyone knows that. LeBron gets his calls, but so does Duncan, Garnett, Dirk, Kobe, Shaq, D-Wade, McGrady, Yao and AI. That's the way it is and has been for decades. People pay to see superstars play. That's why it's rare that you'll ever see officials give up that 6th foul to a superstar. The refs will even admit that too. So they obviously are not going to "throw out" one of them under this new rule - unless there are unusual circumstances that warrant the disqualification. (See Carmelo Anthony's recent behavior).

As much as Duncan gets a critical by Mavs fans and apologists for whining and moaning to officials, I see Dirk, Jason Terry and other Mavs doing the same thing all the time. Instead of whining about others, perhaps they should look in the mirror. After all, weren't they the ones that cried CONSPIRACY during the NBA Finals during Games 3-6? Never heard a word about this during Games 1 & 2. Nor did I hear anything about it this during the conference semifinals versus the Spurs. Both those Mavs players and their juvenile owner truly embody what whining really is.

Also, there are few who whined more than Shawn Bradley when he was playing.

For what it's worth Shoogar, that's a great shot of the McGrady dunk. Kinad looks like their playing that ol' schoolyard game of piggy back horse.

That one play summed up Bradley's entire pathetic career.

Were you aware that that was Bradley's last play in the NBA. Right after that dunk, AJ immediately called timeout and took Bradley out of the game. He never saw another minute on the court during that series or for the remainder of the playoffs.

The Mavs bought out the remainder of his contract during the offseason. He retired shortly thereafter.

This new rule takes Superstar calls to the next level, it's purely objective, and every ref will call it differently.