Stupid question. Why would the players HAVE to know?
What would force Stern to tell them? It isn't "scripted", teams
are not pulling any punches, it's the officiating that has such a
huge effect on the game.
I thought the officiating was shoddy through much of the
Thunder-Spurs series. But in game 6, it was made so painfully
apparent, because they probably felt, that if the Spurs actually
won game 6 in OKC, that they'd have the power to actually overcome
the one-sided officiating in their arena in game 7. & that's a chance
Stern was not willing to take.