Wojnarowski: NBA needs to blow whistle on replacement refs

[ginobili's bald spot]

Yeah, congratulations to the Lakers for being the champs of the most injury plagued season of all time.

And LAKER fans are the ones who are insecure.


I sure hope all those excuses make you feel better Spurfans Props to those of you who can sack up and take a loss like a man.

[Culburn369]

That's probably the most ignorant, disgusting thing I've ever read. It must haunt your mom every day that she never pulled the trigger with the clothes hanger during her 9 months of pregnancy.

Hot damn! It was a special delivery just for you, DUNCAN.

tee, hee.

[JJ Hickson]

That's probably the most ignorant, disgusting thing I've ever read. It must haunt your mom every day that she never pulled the trigger with the clothes hanger during her 9 months of pregnancy.

Culburn being a Nazi is nothing new sons. Don't get him started on his white pride .

[Culburn369]

Culburn being a Nazi is nothing new sons. Don't get him started on his white pride .

What, so I'm a proud white man. Ain't nothin' wrong with that.

And those Jews did jump in prematurely. I saw the videos.

[Culburn369]

Yeah, congratulations to the Lakers for being the champs of the most injury plagued season of all time.

Cut's down the odds tremendously and enables the Sans Daddy part to evolve to full fruition.

tee, hee.

[duncan228]

Replacements Vs. Refs: Where Will It End?
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A couple of seasons ago, the big ref story was the "zero tolerance" policy that was supposed to shut those yappin' players up. Now, with replacement refs calling games and the quality of their work still uncertain, it's coaches who are being disciplined on a regular basis. From The Denver Post:

Charlotte’s Larry Brown, Memphis’ Lionel Hollins and Orlando’s Stan Van Gundy and their organizations have been fined a combined $215,000 for criticizing the new, replacement officials during the preseason.

Nuggets coach George Karl, speaking specifically about Brown’s fines, doesn’t want to be the next on that list.

“I’m thankful it’s him and not me,” Karl quipped. “They (the NBA) did say that the fines are going to be expensive and steep. And $120,000 for complaining about referees is high.”

Should be interesting to see if this goes the way of "zero tolerance": eventually, the point was made, refs started letting the players talk a little again and a happy median was reached. But what's the compromise here, asking coaches to live with what they perceive as poor officiating? Are these fines saying "tolerate some bad calls"? And more importantly, what can the league offer in this hypothetical truce—official makeup call cards redeemable at any time during the season?

[Morg1411]

Cut's down the odds tremendously and enables the Sans Daddy part to evolve to full fruition.

tee, hee.

The fact that you exist is proof of the lack of justice in the world.

(sigh)

[Morg1411]

[this space reserved for ridiculously inane comment by Culburn, likely referencing Mavericks 4-1 over Spurs, 15 rings/Sans-Daddy, or, if he's feeling particularly lucid, a blatantly gay/offensive comment just to stir things up]

[jag]

What, so I'm a proud white man. Ain't nothin' wrong with that.

And those Jews did jump in prematurely. I saw the videos.

Say what you want about Jews, but when it comes to the military, business, medicine and mathematics they've got 1-up on practically everyone else.

I'm not Jewish, but i'm also not blind or stupid.

That being said, and back to basketball, i think Omri Casspi is gonna be a bust.

[Culburn369]

[Say what you want about Jews, but when it comes to the military, business, medicine and mathematics they've got 1-up on practically everyone else.]

I won't quibble after "military",,,but, they ain't no great shakes there. They've claimed they won't negotiate but have at every point/event since they claimed they won't negotiate. But, its been easy for them. We've carried their water, their end of the log. And I got no problem with it. It's a patch of dirt there in the midst of all that black gold, that Texas tea. Before Hussein (the other one) crossed into Kuwait we had no other foothold to call our own save that Jewish patch since Carter let The Shah fall back in the '70s. Sure, now we're flush with Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan in our pocket, but, the constant has always been Israel.

And for that, we owe.