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The only person who has done more than Joey Crawford to screw the Spurs over the years is Stu Jackson. I can say with no fear of being mistaken that his motives are not pure and unbiased. His influence has left a stain on more than a few playoff series, and I'm convinced that he is largely responsible for Crawford being allowed to come back to the court. They need to pack Crawford in Stuey's suitcase, and put both of them on a bus out of town.
This is what he had to say about Crawford ejecting Artest:
Stu Jackson also addressed Joey Crawford's decision to eject Artest from Game 2.
"That is the referee’s judgment," Jackson said. "He made the judgment to eject Ron Artest on one technical foul, which by rule is acceptable. That judgment was made based upon the act that Artest committed – first complaining to the official and then walking quite a distance to confront another player. [ed. - no different that what Lamar Scrotum did earlier in the game] The referee made the judgment at that time that he should remove the player from the game for that act and also as to not risk further incident with the player. [ed. - what further incident? talking?]
When asked if Crawford made the right call instead of just a permissable call, Jackson backed his referee up: "The referee made a correct judgment." [ed. - so any ref who didn't eject Artest in that spot would have exhibited bad judgment?]
And this is the bull explanation that Stuey gave for not suspending Kobe:
"Kobe committed a flagrant foul penalty 1 that was an elbow that was delivered as part of the rebound being played under the basket. When it was reviewed on video, it appeared that he made contact with the elbow to Ron Artest’s chest area [ed. - "missed it by that much] and so upon that review we deemed that to be a flagrant foul penalty 1," Jackson said. Had Bryant's elbow contacted Artest above the chest, then a suspension could have come into play. [ed. - so if Artest was a few inches shorter, Kobe would be suspended?]
"We’re clear in our rules that we treat elbow contact above the shoulder area differently than we do to other parts of the body," Jackson said. [ed. - except when Bruce Bowen is involved... then contact isn't actually necessary]
Besides from calling Fisher, officials also reached out to Bryant and Artest.
"We did talk to both players," Jackson said. "Typically we don’t, in this case we did. We talked to both players and the focus here was really to try and determine what the relationship was between the two players during the game [ed. - now Stuey is a ing mind-reader], what precipitated the incident and certainly [ed. - now an intentional elbow to the throat is OK, if something precipitated it?] , as importantly, where the contact was actually made in their minds [ed. - Artest doesn't know where his own throat is. Kobe says chest, and that's good enough] just to get some background."
Jackson called Bryant's elbow "unnecessary contact." [ed. - sort of like talking in class... bad Kobe]
Phil Jackson had his own interpretation of the Bryant infraction:
"A guy puts an elbow in the back of my neck and starts driving me under the basket and I can’t box him out because he outweighs me by 30 pounds [ed. - pussy can't hang with Artest, so a cheap shot is warranted] , I’m going to use whatever means I have," he said. "Maybe not the most ultimate dirty weapons, but you’re going to try and protect your basket. [ed. - so when Andrew Bynym outweighs you by 50 pounds, and is trying to get position, it would be okay to kick him in the balls?]
When you make your Christmas wish list to have Joey Crawford fired, don't forget to include Stu Jackson. In his own way, he's worse, because he's given Joey so much cover.
