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props to Cuban for making the league more accountable for refs. I understand why you hate him, it's very easy to do so. But give the man credit for making referees more visible and accountable.
you beat me tooo it
iwas gonna suggest the same thing
props to Cuban for making the league more accountable for refs. I understand why you hate him, it's very easy to do so. But give the man credit for making referees more visible and accountable.
Not too bad (relatively speaking) ... it could have been worse.
damn, now crawford is going to tell his buddies to ride the spurs all the way now
TIMMY ISN"T paying a fine for LAUGHINGThe NBA assessed Duncan a $25,000 fine for his derogatory comments toward Crawford.
I agree, thats about the going rate for bagging on a ref.
TIMMY ISN"T paying a fine for LAUGHING
No, it might be for the " you, you piece of " part.
Most likely the "vendetta" remarks ...
u mean no egging on your team
no chest bumping and high fiving
no laughing at parker for trying to dunk!
Thanks for the good news!
Yeah, if it wasn't Cuban, Crawford would have gotten away. No doubt.
Well we know which team Stern is for. lol
That's going to cost Joey a ton of money.
I bet the referees' representative/union/whatever will not let this pass unappealed.
I think you are right about Cuban's impact on the NBA and the refs. It doesn't make Cuban a decent human being, but it does make him a pioneer in this area. Cuban is a bright businessman who correctly understood that the refs were making the game about something other than the game...it would have been helpful had he also had the insight (and self-control) to recognize that his antics were ALSO distracting from the game, which is the product he has to sell, and control himself as he wanted the league to control the refs. Finally, the league had to impose rules on all of the owners to get Cuban inside the corral...it was worth it to get Cuban off the TV.
I wonder what cuban thinks of this
he wants the refs to be accoubtable
and then one gets out of line
SUSPENSED and it is made public!
Stern addressed that question on the Dan Patrick show & said basically Joey could appeal if he wants to, but it will not do any good, Stern is the judge & the jury.
So what makes him a s bag then? Resurrecting Lazarus from the NBA dead? The Fallen Patriot fund?
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Making insensitive and juvenile personal attacks aimed at the residents of another city, attacks which had nothing to do with basketball.
I was totally off thinking Tim would get suspension. Never expected magnitude of punishment on Crawford.
Apprehensive about rest of official brotherhood's response to Spurs games now.
I still think Duncan is a whiney child and if he'd been complaining consistently throughout the game (as he usually does) then yeah the ref has every right to T him up.
That said, the fact that Crawford challenged him to a fight is beyond absurd. It doesn't make Tim any less of a whiner, but it does seriously call into question Crawford's judgment.
You're crazy. The whole reason we got Crawford suspended is because we reacted to the situation completely oppositely to how Cuban and the Mavs players would have.
Pop did not flip out afterwards. He did not air his grievances to the media. He didn't say the league was rigged and he didn't say there's a conspiracy. Whatever his thoughts were, he shared them privately with the league.
Duncan didn't read Crawford the riot act in the media either. Yeah he said vendetta and all that, but he didn't swear when discussing the matter and was pretty professional about the whole thing I thought. Not exactly how Stackhouse handled his ejection in the playoffs.
Basically what the Spurs did was give Stern no choice but to suspend Crawford because the evidence was too damning. Nobody in the Spurs organization gave the league an out by acting the fool and look like a bad guy. The problem was 99% Crawford.
Cuban and the Mavs players constantly give the league an out by acting like jackasses after every bad call.
Do you specialize in contradictions?
Sorry but there are plenty of mad men referees left for the playoffs ... Javie, Garrettson, Bavetta, Nies, among others ...
I don't understand the last part of your question. To the first part: what makes him difficult ( not a s bag - I don't believe in ad hominem attacks) is that he appears so immature in his need for attention, and his belief that his business sense translates into an understanding of, and comraderie with, young, mostly african american, millionaire athletes whose salary he pays. It was embarrassing last year to watch him curse at Spurs players and continually do things to try to get himself on tv during the games. It was pathetic. That's what I meant. I know the bible, but I don't get your Lazarus reference, nor your fallen Patriot fund comment.
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