I knew lakers gonna win game 1 with JOEY CRAWFORD the ref.

[yangguo863]

Hi all , I just want to bring the attention that if u guys want the celtics to win , or atleast have a chance without the outcome being controlled by refs , we have to call the nba to bann Joey crawford from reffing the LA series.  When Joey is reffing the lakers, the lakers is 13-0 this season at home ? that does tell us something? yes, joey is a fukin fakers fan. I saw last playoff, the rockets should of beat lakers, but joey turned the series around. and this year. Dont be fooled guys, dont just look at the foul numbers and think the game is blowed fair, an experienced biased ref can change the game so unobviously, I watched the game, he didnt call many fouls on gasol, odom byum, but called many ridiculous fouls on boston players, This makes the lakers offense more aggresive because they know they not gonna get called, and makes the boston defence weaker since the players are scared the foul calls.


Post ur comments and opinions, thx. If joey doesnt ref 2nd game, I trully believe Celtics is a superior team than lakers.

[Bankshot]

I knew it too.  All the experts say he's a great ref.  I disagree!

[celtics2]

Well didn't Allen pick up 2 fouls to match LA's guard? I don't like most refs. They call touch fouls and let the hard ones go. For the most part Pro Basketball as we know it post Bird era is sissafied.

[FLCeltsFan]

Just wait till Bennett (Worst Ref in the NBA) Salvatore shows up for game 2. 

[Bynum4MVP]

Contrary to popular belief, the Lakers are actually the ones not getting the calls.

When the Lakers win again tomorrow in Staples without Crawford, will it still be a conspiracy or will it be that the better team won?  If the Celtics win in Boston, will they have earned it or were they given the game by the refs?

I don't believe in conspiracy theories nor do I use the refs as an excuse.  Even when Powe shot more free throws than the entire Lakers team in the 2008 Finals, I didn't buy the ref card.

I've posted the Free Throw discrepency in the 2010 Playoffs at the bottom.  Cavs got the most free throws over their opponent, the Lakers the least...that's a difference of almost 160 possible free points.

Miami, the Celtics first round opponent with a superstar in DWade had the 2nd fewest.  Meanwhile, the Thunder, the Lakers 1st round opponent, had the 2nd Highest.

Even in the Finals, the Celtics so far have shot more free throws than the Lakers.

I could cry and point at the stats which are overwhelmingly NOT in favor of the Lakers, but I think these ref conspiracies are statistically unfounded and ruins my enjoyment of the game.  I'm perfectly fine giving credit to the Celtics winning in 2008 and I'm not going to dilute their championship performance by complaining about refs.

There's no ref favoritism for the Lakers... it looks more like the refs are trying to slow down the Lakers if you want to buy the conspiracy theories.

[Overrated]

Joey scoffs at this thread.