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No Bavetta? I'm surprised.
The 'Sports Guy' has his own theory about the NBA and ref corruption (they're supposed to extend series so the league gets extra money IIRC), but I believe his "circle" is mainly just Bavetta.
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Yeah, I didn't need Wikipedia for that one.thank you Wikipedia reader
I notice Wiki has locked the Joey C bio due to vandalism by upset Spurs fans, too.
If Stern doesn't like the integrity of his league questioned, he should rule these refs with an iron fist to make sure all is on the level. The officiating discrepancies over the last couple of years are really starting to look bad on the league, and Stern has the power to fix it if he gets off his ass and does something about it.
Salvatore turns games into free throw shooting contests (statistically it has been proven that a Salvatore game has 10%+ free throw attempts), so of course as a fan of the worst free throw shooting franchise in NBA history, he is not liked.
Crawford and Nies hate Duncan.
Javie gets the lifetime achievement award due to him being the one human alive who hates David Robinson.
It's not exactly a good sign that the Spurs have so many top tier refs against them now
And again, I do blame part of this whole thing on Duncan whining too much all throughout the year. But nothing should have made it come to the point that he's ejected for laughing while on the bench.
I'm at least glad this happened in a regular season game. If it had happened in a playoff game, I can't even imagine.
I don't think Bavetta is corrupt he just gets off on the cheers from the home crowd.No Bavetta? I'm surprised.
The 'Sports Guy' has his own theory about the NBA and ref corruption (they're supposed to extend series so the league gets extra money IIRC), but I believe his "circle" is mainly just Bavetta.
No, he wasn't.
He was just T'd up, then suspended later.
Duncan suspended for one game
Issue date: 12/2/03
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - San Antonio forward Tim Duncan was suspended for one game Monday for bumping into a referee during the Spurs' 91-89 loss at Golden State over the weekend.
The suspension without pay was issued by Stu Jackson, the NBA's senior vice president for basketball operations.
Duncan, the league's MVP the past two seasons, was to sit out Monday night's game in Los Angeles against the Clippers. He will be back in uniform for San Antonio's home contest Wednesday against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Duncan was setting a pick late in the third quarter of Saturday night's game near the Spurs' 3-point line when he gave a little nudge to referee Jack Nies, who had gotten tangled up with another player and couldn't get out of Duncan's way.
Nies, who sprawled to the floor, immediately hit Duncan with a technical foul.
So Duncan's had only two ejections in his entire career?
Point taken.
Did you make that Lefty?
As far as I recall, he got ejected against KG in 2002? (both were ejected) but the league rescinded Duncan's ejection (like that does any good) afterward when they reviewed it and found Duncan had only smiled.
That's the only ejection I recall up until today, but someone can probably prove me wrong.
So then officially on Record Tim only has one ejection, for laughing. I bet the leauge would have recended the technical and ejection if Tim had not spoken out about the incident after the game.
Kori's right (as usual) -- here's the game story for that Golden State game:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=231129009
Oh ok, so he's only been suspended once in addition to that?
Duncan must have been really mad to speak out publicly like that after the game knowing the playoffs are coming and that The Gnome will probably officiate 1 out of every 3 Spurs games for the rest of the year.
Completely unlike Tim, I believe that Crawford said what Duncan attributed to him and it made Tim lose his mind temporarily.
Apparently, Tim missed the GW FG that night, too.
Or maybe Tim has been working with Phil and Kobe on how to manipulate the NBA ref. system. Tim had a while to think about saying something and he still did, in my opinion he must have felt that something could be gained by speaking out.
This is bad ... not even close to getting the facts right
http://cbs.sportsline.com/nba/story/10128987
Duncan ejected from Mavericks game for arguing with refs
April 15, 2007
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports
DALLAS -- Tim Duncan was ejected with 1:04 left in the third quarter of San Antonio's game against the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday after picking up his second technical foul -- from the bench.
Duncan drew his first with 2:20 to go in the quarter for arguing about an offensive foul against him. He was taken out soon after.
On the second technical, which forces an automatic ejection, Duncan was laughing about a call that went against the Spurs. He stood up and walked out, his face going from incredulous to angry.
Duncan left with 16 points, seven rebounds, six assists and two blocks.
AP NEWS
The Associated Press News Service
Okay. There's one ejection on Tim's record before today and that's the one I mentioned in this post. The FINE was rescinded by the league in this instance. The disqualification stands on his record.
So before today, he had just one ejection (disqualification) on his record in 10 years.
Could be.
I remember from somewhere that the league grades its officials on % of correct calls, and Bavetta is consistently last on the table (yes, worse than Violet Palmer). But they still have him out there officiating important games because of his "game management" skills...
It's time to bring Wahoo McDaniel back from the dead. He needs to guest referee an indian strap match between these two guys. Duncan would clean his clock.I can't wait to see the TNT intro for the playoffs...
"Duncan, Crawford, game 1, tonight on TNT"
He is, however, a repeat and serial laugher.
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