bombs news article cliams nba helped spurs & kawhi leonard cheat in 2017 playoff win vs memphis

[playblair]

nba knowingly used 2 sdsu alums to help kawhi.........

A while back, I decided to map every NBA referee and track where they went to college. Did any of them overlap with NBA stars? I thought that might be an interesting thread to pull on. I wondered if the NBA would ever let those officials work those games when they share an alma mater with a star player.

Turns out there were. Two overlaps in particular caught my eye back in the 2016-17 season: James Harden’s Arizona State and Kawhi Leonard’s San Diego State. Longtime official Billy Kennedy went to ASU while two officials Bill Spooner and Rodney Mott attended Leonard’s San Diego State.

I was curious: Did the San Diego State refs, Mott or Spooner, ever work a Leonard game? I pulled up the game logs and scanned for the referees in the box scores.

You know that scene at the end of Usual Suspects, the one when Detective Palminteri drops his coffee mug once he realizes the true iden y of Keyzer Soze? That was me when I saw that the officials on an April 17, 2017 playoff game between the San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies: Bill Spooner, Dan Crawford and Rodney Mott.

That’s right: the NBA put not one, but two San Diego State alums on a Kawhi game. That wasn’t just any old basketball exhibition. That was the infamous “Take That For Data” game, the one in which Memphis Grizzlies coach David Fizdale famously unleashed an explosive postgame rant blasting officials.

Fizdale’s chief complaint? Leonard, who scored a playoff-career-high 37 points, tallied more free throws than the entire Memphis Grizzlies team.

This seems like a pretty easy landmine for the NBA referee ops to navigate around. In fact, Referee Magazine once listed its conflicts of interests to avoid for officials.

The No. 1 on the list?

Alma mater.

https://www.tomthefinder.com/p/the-n...rust-us-should


which lead to this outburst from memphis coach

[spurraider21]

can we pink op?

[Rubberducky]

Fizdale

[Joseph Kony]

yeah i got tats on my legs, yeah they're spurs and yeah they're on my calves... we've gone over this yrs ago and yet it's still being brought up like a bad joke. it's in' old man and you think it gets to me when you say the bs you do? you think it gets to me especially coming from some chump off the internet? come on now man... i didn't get these tats because i thought i'd shrivel up into a ball and hide when someone put me down about my decision to tat my calves up with spurs, i got these tats because i wanted to, because i like them and because i could give 2 s less about some made chump on the internet.

get over it man and add to this thread or get the out already. come up with something clever or shut the up and get out of my thread.

[playblair]

yeah i got tats on my legs, yeah they're spurs and yeah they're on my calves... we've gone over this yrs ago and yet it's still being brought up like a bad joke. it's in' old man and you think it gets to me when you say the bs you do? you think it gets to me especially coming from some chump off the internet? come on now man... i didn't get these tats because i thought i'd shrivel up into a ball and hide when someone put me down about my decision to tat my calves up with spurs, i got these tats because i wanted to, because i like them and because i could give 2 s less about some made chump on the internet.

get over it man and add to this thread or get the out already. come up with something clever or shut the up and get out of my thread.

joey is no longer my friend........

[exstatic]

Fizdale

He's an idiot that lost his job to a gleague coach.

[koriwhat]

joey is no longer my friend........

Don't take it to heart bud; I'm not one to "make friends" online and too old for that nonsense anyhow.

As for JK, he's in the same league as Chump & BlaKKKe with how much he's in my notifications without a response from me whatsoever. It's been years now and if that's not a sign of being a pathetic dip then IDK what is. JK you gay bro like all the others? Sure seems like it.

[Joseph Kony]

Don't take it to heart bud; I'm not one to "make friends" online and too old for that nonsense anyhow.

As for JK, he's in the same league as Chump & BlaKKKe with how much he's in my notifications without a response from me whatsoever. It's been years now and if that's not a sign of being a pathetic dip then IDK what is. JK you gay bro like all the others? Sure seems like it.

why do you lie bro? You know you hang on my every word. besides, it took me two seconds to find a couple replies from you in the last couple of months. rofl "years"

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...1#post10896516

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...1#post10896541

i'm sure i could find plenty more if i actually cared joey the liar

[koriwhat]

^
In my notifications again like the straight up sexual that JK is. How long you going to keep this up without a response to the context of your nonsense? Stay gay JK, June is just around the corner!

[Leetonidas]

why do you lie bro? You know you hang on my every word. besides, it took me two seconds to find a couple replies from you in the last couple of months. rofl "years"

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...1#post10896516

https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/sho...1#post10896541

i'm sure i could find plenty more if i actually cared joey the liar

Joey is a liar AND a hypocrite. He literally does the same thing to me he accuses Kony of, the difference being that I actually do have him on ignore and don't reply to him

[Joseph Kony]

joey is too stupid to understand that directly acknowledging my post and responding with a question is by definition replying to me. ing idiot

[koriwhat]

JK the Gay strikes again!

[widowmaker]

I cheat all the time. Ain’t nothing wrong with that.

[GAustex]

Memphis all they did was hack and muck it up
Kahwaii kicked their ass the whole game

[LittleCriminal]

NBA is entertainment..
Why anybody assumes otherwise after watching the Kings/Laker series back in 2000 or whatever, should of been the red flag or eye opening to most.

[offset formation]

neph. the NBA and its pathetic refs.

[BacktoBasics]

Don't take it to heart bud; I'm not one to "make friends" online and too old for that nonsense anyhow.

As for JK, he's in the same league as Chump & BlaKKKe with how much he's in my notifications without a response from me whatsoever. It's been years now and if that's not a sign of being a pathetic dip then IDK what is. JK you gay bro like all the others? Sure seems like it.

Here you go again. Getting along with people.

[CGD]

Yup, bombs right up there with Putin assassinating the Wagner group leader.

[thiste]

Might have been a bombs if it was a year when we won, and a relevant team, not the Grizzlies.

[JPB]

Yup, bombs right up there with Putin assassinating the Wagner group leader.

Come on, that's was yet another unfortunate accident.

[koriwhat]

Here you go again. Getting along with people.

Here you go again acting like the sore ass that you clearly are.

Btw, I don't care to get along with you putos, especially not the trolls like queen puto JK! Are you unable to comprehend that, process that, rationalize that? Damn you're dumb as but you got a lot of cars so there's that.

[Ed Helicopter Jones]

“Bombs ”