FWIW: Dan Crawford is one of the Game One Refs

[ElNono]

At least it seems likely that Brothers isn't a crew chief in this round; that would be a big surprise to me. In each of the last two playoffs, there have been 5 crew chiefs in the Conference Finals round and those 5 have been the same in each year: Danny Crawford, Joey Crawford, Monty McCutchen, Scott Foster, and Ken Mauer. We already know that Foster and Danny Crawford are crew chiefs in this round, and it seems virtually certain that Joey Crawford and McCutchen will be chiefs in this round, too. It seems likely that the 5th will be either Mauer or Mike Callahan. If Brothers was to jump over any of those guys, I'd be very, very surprised.

In any event, the best bet is to hope you get Brothers at home. As bad as he can be -- and as much as he has apparently been really good to OKC -- he's pretty much the biggest homer to this point in these playoffs; home teams are 7-1 in his games so far.

Brothers was a crew chief in each of the first two rounds, so I think it's pretty much a lock that he'll work both conference finals series (and if those series go long, that he'll work 3 games in this round) and he will likely have 2 Finals games, too.

Thanks for the insight

[FromWayDowntown]

Mccutchen game 2 joe Crawford game 3 mike Callahan game 4 please

There's a good chance you'll get your Game 2 wish, TPark, but I'd be surprised if those hopes work out for Games 3 and 4.

The crew for Game 2 of MIA/IND tonight is Joey Crawford, Mike Callahan, and John Goble. From that, we basically know that McCutchen will either have Game 2 of SA/OKC or one of the Game 3's. We also know that Callahan is not a crew chief in this round.

[TampaDude]

There's a good chance you'll get your Game 2 wish, TPark, but I'd be surprised if those hopes work out for Games 3 and 4.

The crew for Game 2 of MIA/IND tonight is Joey Crawford, Mike Callahan, and John Goble. From that, we basically know that McCutchen will either have Game 2 of SA/OKC or one of the Game 3's. We also know that Callahan is not a crew chief in this round.

Joey will deliver the goods for Miami tonight, no doubt. Heat in 5.

[T Park]

There's a good chance you'll get your Game 2 wish, TPark, but I'd be surprised if those hopes work out for Games 3 and 4.

The crew for Game 2 of MIA/IND tonight is Joey Crawford, Mike Callahan, and John Goble. From that, we basically know that McCutchen will either have Game 2 of SA/OKC or one of the Game 3's. We also know that Callahan is not a crew chief in this round.

Just hoping for Joey in game 3 or 4

[Beaverfuzz]

The real primadonna on that crew is zarba

[FromWayDowntown]

Game 2:

Mauer
Garretson
Malloy

This likely means that the Game 3/4 officials will be 2 of the following 3 groups:

Foster/Kennedy
McCutchen/(and likely) Brothers
J. Crawford/Callahan

[SpursFanInAustin]

Just hoping for Joey in game 3 or 4

Remember the last time Joey reffed a Spurs game at OKC in the playoffs? The Game 6 screwjob

[TheGreatYacht]

He's back

[UZER]

Stop worrying about the refs.

Spurs will not worry, we should not not either

True enough, Jim Popovich.

You control what you can control and don't worry about what you can't control.

Like other people worrying about the refs