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Tonight’s game NBA Finals Game 2 featured real NBA drama down the stretch, but with about 3 minutes to go with the Magic either up by 2 or with the game tied, the officials began calling a different game. After letting them play for most of the 3rd & 4th quarter and both teams in [...]

When you have a foul to give and you’re up by two, the last thing you do is let a good shooter get off a three point shot. The fans, the owners, the coaches and the players know this. More importantly, the officials know this. In fact, the league has come up with rules designed [...]

Leave it to David Stern to throw the first “You Have to be Kidding me!” wet blanket on an otherwise great start to NBA playoffs. Kenyon Martin’s foul on Nowitski is available everywhere to see, and the more you watch it, the more you have you wonder what goes into the NBA play review process [...]

Ah Spring, that special time of year when the air smells of blooming flowers, the days get longer and warmer, and the NBA referees get back to their business of wrecking playoff games. Last night in Boston, they did so first by bouncing Ray Allen with two ticky-tack calls in the final two minutes of [...]

Only hours before tip-off of game 3 of the NBA finals, a letter sent by Tim Donaghy’s lawyer attempting to gain leniency as the penal phase of his trial begins, was made public. To no one’s surprise, it made references to playoff series in 2002 and 2005 that were allegedly tainted by rigged officiating and [...]

David Stern has screwed the Suns again. During last night’s testy game 4 in Atlanta between the Hawks and the Celtics, tempers escalated after Boston forwward Kevin Garnett threw a late elbow at Atlanta back-up Center Zaza Pachulia. TV replays showed players stepping off both benches and, it was assumed, that because of last year’s “Rules [...]