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• riggs Posted: May.28 at 9:05 am
  if that was a foul, then odom blocked and didnt goaltend, and kobe was intentional fouled. thems the breaks indeed.

• RedRum Posted: May.28 at 9:07 am
  I really feel sad for the NBA… this was a call that even a minor-league ref would call. I guess that Celtics Lakers final will happen. Well done NBA

• Elyse Posted: May.28 at 9:12 am
  Spurs should not have even had the ball. Fishers shot hit the rim. Fisher jumped straight up. Calls are missed all the time, but almost never called at the end of the game. Let’s get over it and accept lakers played better. Kobe didn’t shoot a single free throw…. I mean, seriously, you make your own breaks.

• RedRum Posted: May.28 at 9:14 am
  Mutoni, I am also really sad with your post, which shows you are not a real basketball fan, but a lakers whipping boy. Yes, refs make bad calls, but this call was atrocious, one of the worst I have seen. Unless you are Jack Nicholson or Dr. Buss, you should not be happy you won a game like that.

• Mark Z Posted: May.28 at 9:15 am
  Hey, I’m no expert but I’m pretty sure jumping & coming down with an elbow on a shooter’s head IS a foul.

• Sesa Posted: May.28 at 9:23 am
  I’m glad Lakers won, but there are still too many weird call and non-call throughout the game. The Odom’s goaltend and Fisher’s shot was a mere part of them.

• P.J. Brown Posted: May.28 at 9:25 am
  I hate the spurs with every bone in my body but that was definitely a foul. I think the league should do what they did for the Hawks vs. the Heat. It’s only fair. Maybe that could put to rest some of the rumors that the league is itching for the Lakers/Celtics finals…maybe

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 9:26 am
  Marcel, you are forgiven because you are listless to the fact that the Lakers do no wrong. I’ve also been saying for weeks that the Celtics/Lakers Finals was going to be a sure thing due to shotty officiating. Uhm……of course, I’m always right. Lakers are locked in, time for the Celts to get their turn in Boston tonight.

• jbn74sb Posted: May.28 at 9:29 am
  Yes, it was a foul.
  No, Brent Barry does not get that call in those circumstances. Or any other circumstances.
  Yes, the officials were horrible all game.
  Yes, Fisher’s shot hit the rim.
  Yes, that was a travel on Duncan on his 7 step dunk in the first half.
  Yes, Kobe shot 1 free throw in 2 games in San Antonio.
  And, the Spurs got the balance of the calls in the game.
  And yes, karma’s a b!tch.

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 9:31 am
  Bodie, glad to see the system hasn’t shut you down!!!!!!

• Tom Posted: May.28 at 9:39 am
  let’s face it, if a foul was called there, instead of everyone saying spurs were robbed, we’d be saying lakers got robbed because odom did not goaltend and fisher’s shot hit the rim. the better team won last night..i mean did spurs even lead at all in the game? there was alot to complain about in the final minute but that’s not why spurs lost the game

• Danino Brown Posted: May.28 at 9:44 am
  it was a foul, but Barry should have only had 2 shots (it was before the act of shooting the trey) and at best he would’ve sunk both, putting the game into OT where I truly believe the Lakers would’ve whipped the old, tired ass, spurs. Like others have said before me, karma’s a mofo, the spurs and Bowen in particular have gotten away with sooooooooo much year after year in the playoffs that I don’t feel sorry for them at all. Spurs vs Suns last season anyone?

• jbn74sb Posted: May.28 at 9:44 am
  Here we are up 3-1 in the WCF against the defending champs, without Bynum, and all anyone wants to talk about is the refs. We played like sh-t last night, and still won the game. If anything, the sh-tty calls, of which there were many, favored the Spurs.
  And eboy, it is about time for me to leave the system - not a big fan of that place right now.

• andrew Posted: May.28 at 9:51 am
  jbn74sb says:
  Yes, it was a foul.
  No, Brent Barry does not get that call in those circumstances. Or any other circumstances.
  Yes, the officials were horrible all game.
  Yes, Fisher’s shot hit the rim.
  Yes, that was a travel on Duncan on his 7 step dunk in the first half.
  Yes, Kobe shot 1 free throw in 2 games in San Antonio.
  And, the Spurs got the balance of the calls in the game.
  And yes, karma’s a b!tch. All this is exactly how I see it. The refs should’ve been way better the whole way through, especially on the TD dunk. Hell, maybe they were just really surprised that Duncan would actually make a play that didn’t involve the low block and the window that they thought the fans deserved to see some actual athleticism from I Robot. That, and LeBron takes that many steps every time he dunks…

• mook Posted: May.28 at 9:53 am
  The thing that saddens me is how people are willing to overlook such a blatant non-call when it supports their team (or is against a team they hate). Apparently, the calls are only fair if they’re for “your team”.

• RedRum Posted: May.28 at 10:02 am
  I am not a spurs fan. I do not live in SA, not even in the US as a matter of fact… I like watching basketball, good basketball that is. I like the Lakers, they play very well. I like all 4 teams that are in the conference finals, because they play D and pass the ball. I have played ball and coached up to high level to be able to tell the intangibles of a team and the way they play. This was a horrible call, and altered the outcome of the game. The other calls that people mentioned were wrong as well, but a)they were not in the last second of the game b) they were WAY MUCH less clear cut than the foul. There is a huge difference between them and the foul. All I am saying is that people act like a they live by the Staples Stadium and supposedly “hardcore fans” of the team that they do not seem to have any relation with… I mean… how many people here are really from LA to be such hardcore fans? I guess it is too much fun to pretend to be a hardcore supporter that they miss the game itself

• Hass777 Posted: May.28 at 10:03 am
  somewhere steve nash and david west are smiling….karmas a bitch

• glen lewis Posted: May.28 at 10:05 am
  Tim Duncan’s 4 step dunk was awesome

• Jolst Posted: May.28 at 10:08 am
  How comes that you don’t hear anyone talking about that play being a travel? He look at his pivot foot.

• Silky Slim Posted: May.28 at 10:09 am
  Mamba also traveled in the first quarter while driving to the basket on Bowen.

• BETCATS Posted: May.28 at 10:11 am
  its not like Brent Barry is good anyway. And plus how come the Spurs got a free pass with the Suns last year after Amare and Boris stood up. You think a Suns v. Cavs finals wouldnt have crazy rattings? Conspiarcy my @ss. But Joey does hate the Spurs. Laugh now Tim Duncan. Laugh now.

• Silky Slim Posted: May.28 at 10:13 am
  Odom came to play last night! He was agressively attacking the rim. He needs to stay in that mode. Fisher and Gasol were solid. The Lakeshow bench (Farmar, Walton, and Sasha) played well.

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 10:14 am
  Silky Slim, I was waiting for someone to bring that 5 step play up.

• Silky Slim Posted: May.28 at 10:15 am
  Mamba had a severe brain cramp in the 4th quarter. He drove into a double-team under one minute left on the clock. There were still about 18 seconds left on the 24-second shot clock. That wasn’t a very smart play!

• ciolkstar Posted: May.28 at 10:20 am
  I think it was a foul for sure. But I’ll even admit b barry made the mistake of putting a dribble down when Fisher left his feet. Had he went straight up with the shot after getting fisher in the air its three freethrows and this b*tch is tied 2-2. I just hope popp has realized how tough it is to get by every year with this geriatric roster. We need to bring over Tiago Splitter and sign Josh Childress and a “spot up” 3 point shooter. Please God don’t resign Horry and Finley. You can’t win em all I guess.

• BETCATS Posted: May.28 at 10:20 am
  why do we just have to talk about this bull sh!t? why isnt the fact that kobe is going to the finals intresting anyone? Sure it was a foul, but referees never get 100% of the calls right. Plus, he is Brent Barry, not Lebron, not Kobe, not Tony Parker. Brent Barry does not get those calls.

• Silky Slim Posted: May.28 at 10:23 am
  The Spurs were tired in the 4th quarter. Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili were tired. Pop should’ve rested the old fellas before the final stretch, but he didn’t. Horry is a shell of himself. Barry was balling. It’s over for the Spurs Dynasty. The Lakeshow will close it out in game 5.

• KaponoE Posted: May.28 at 10:25 am
  “The Foul” only ties the game. At LEAST it is consistent with the rest of the way the game was called.

• Dutch Rich Posted: May.28 at 10:27 am
  Joey’s revenge.

• BETCATS Posted: May.28 at 10:31 am
  eh

• Krishan Posted: May.28 at 10:32 am
  My two cents was the officiating was atrocious. Personally I don’t give a sh!t about who wins, but I could hardly watch that game without grimacing. The refs were clearly sucking San An d!ick all game, and at the final, windng seconds, they collectively decided to bite. HARD.

• Dutch Rich Posted: May.28 at 10:33 am
  The definition of the big three on whatever team. In the clutch on most occasion any of the teams stars will get the benefit of the doubt. If that was Manu there woulda been OT for sure. Dumb decision by Pop or maybe good D strategy by Phil, who knows. Go Lakers.

• Brent Barry Posted: May.28 at 10:38 am
  I guess I could have gone straight up for the three instead of trying to avoid contacts with one dribble huh?
  Sorry Spurs fan. I had the Lakers and under…JK.

• BETCATS Posted: May.28 at 10:57 am
  ?

• E. Sneed Posted: May.28 at 11:22 am
  I would just like to say LeBron James DID NOT get the same call last year after Bruce Bowen tried to intentionally foul him on a last second shot…after the game he said “That wasn’t a foul!” If the King doesn’t get the call then why would Brent Barry???

• Myles Brown Posted: May.28 at 11:26 am
  Thank you.

• Roger Sign Posted: May.28 at 11:29 am
  I don’t know how any Laker fan can complain about the refs in any circumstance, period. The team has become the ultimate finesse squad, and as such, are soft as paper machete. Kobe and a driving Odom are the only players seemingly capable of even drawing a foul. And defensively, its a joke; all the defensive scheming in the world belies the fact that Fish should foul out every game he plays against a good offensive point guard whose team’s offense he does not have intimate knowledge of. Soft-ass Gasol consistently flails around the key with impunity without even attempting to play positional defense. Even Odom always appears a step slow with help and often flies out of control on offense since abandoning his jumper. The bench are clearly a bunch of hacks, with the Euro component being flopping hacks. And all you hear is Lacker fans complaining about a non-called travel? Are you all as disingenuous as Phil Jackson or is it just a requisite quality for the bandwagon? Nobody could possibly feel bad for the Spurs, but is this complex gonna continue during the Finals against Boston as well?

• casey Posted: May.28 at 11:31 am
  I’ll have to agree with most here…but more importantly with a good friend of mine. He and I discussed this extensively this morning (word up Eric). If Barry would not have taken the dribble as Fish jumped up and he’d taken the shot instead, it would have been a foul. But, he took the dribble, took the contact and gave just as much contact back. Sorry SA fans…but it was not a foul. Good no-call ref.

• Gumdrop Posted: May.28 at 11:31 am
  I’m going to go ahead and take the opposite direction of most of y’all. I thought Fisher went pretty much straight up and down and Barry leaned in under him. Which is a move that works to get fouls called fairly often, but the defensive player should be allowed to occupy his own space. Good “no” call.

• Donn Posted: May.28 at 11:36 am
  Bad call? maybe…but that call wasn’t as bad as the Spurs last nite…they look old and tired….is it me, or does it seem like Robert Horry can’t bend down to get the ball anymore? Anyways, foul or no foul, Lakers are just better than the Spurs..

• G Diesel Posted: May.28 at 11:43 am
  Why is everybody talkin about the last play and actin as if San Antonio was robbed or somethin. The Lakers were playin 5 against 8 all game long and were clearly the better team.
  Karma is bit*h!!!

• caeubona Posted: May.28 at 11:44 am
  yes, it was obviously a foul, but the spurs didn’t even deserve to get that far. they didn’t even deserve to have the ball in that possession. the officials were just being consistent. they didn’t call a travel on that dunk wherein duncan took a thousand steps, they made wrong calls in pivotal moments - the fish jumper and the odom “goal tend.” so yes, karma is a bitch, it was a good no-call, and the lakers are gonna finish this at staples.

• what Posted: May.28 at 11:47 am
  I’m no Laker fan, but if the Spurs wanna b*tch about that call they also gotta admit that Odom’s so-called goaltend was a clean block and that Fisher’s shot hit the rim.

• Stewie Griffin Posted: May.28 at 11:54 am
  Ahahah, I’m so glad the game ended that way

• Nick Posted: May.28 at 12:10 pm
  I might be the most subjective thinker when it comes to the Spurs, being from Dallas i hate them a lot. Throw that away in regards to this game, i think that the Spurs doubled the Lakeshow in FT attempts, not only did TD21 travel, he stutter stepped before taking 3 more steps, LO pinned TP on the glass, Dfish’s shot hit the rim, and KB24 didn’t go to the foul line once. That should trade off for 1 “No Call.”

• BxBaller Posted: May.28 at 12:34 pm
  You don’t make that type of call in the last seconds, good no-call, let the players dictate the game. BTW, has anybody seen Manu’s game? LOL.

• Daniel Posted: May.28 at 12:35 pm
  In a 48 minute game it never comes down to one call. The refs were calling the game for the Spurs the entire game, including Crawford. The blocking foul on Odom, the goaltending, the fouls on odom and fisher in the first which turned the game around, the obvious duncan travel and of course fishers shot that hit the rim. Barry would have got the call if he went up while fish was in the air but he didnt. Did I mention no free throws for Kobe

• The Last Kings Fan Posted: May.28 at 12:36 pm
  It was a foul in the first 47 minutes, but a game is called differently in the last minute of the game. It shouldn’t be, but it is, and the difference in the way the game is called is obvious. While the non-call may have not been consistent with the way the rest of the game was called, it is consistent with how the last minute of close games is nearly always refereed. I think it was a good no call.

• Jukai Posted: May.28 at 12:45 pm
  This is a PERFECT example of the refs looking up at the replay, seeing they made a mistake, and rectifying the mistake at the other end. I feel this game was actually balanced and fair. I mean, the shot clock not resetting was far worse… why are people not upset about that?

• People's Princess Posted: May.28 at 1:03 pm
  Well said Marcel.

• 44-32-24 Posted: May.28 at 1:05 pm
  Refs called a lousy game all night long. Lakers got one to go their way at the end. So I guess that evens it out. The amazing thing is that the Lakers shouldn’t be making the Finals without Bynum, and yet, here they are, one victory away. Nice.

• Millertime Posted: May.28 at 1:08 pm
  Apparently no one here saw any of the post-game interviews - both Barry and Pop said it was not a foul. They said that there was obviously contact made, but a no-call was the right call in that situation. If they aren’t upset with the call, then why is the rest of the world up in arms?

• tealish Posted: May.28 at 1:17 pm
  The refs kind of set themselves up for that last no-call. Surprisingly, the Lakers weren’t getting the calls in SA. Very surprising. Not sure if there’s a stat somewhere, but I’ll bet good money that the Lakers own the largest FTA discrepency vs. their opponents over the span of the entire playoffs. With that sad, most of the iffy calls went against them last game and it was almost as if the refs were like “Damn, we can’t call another one. Especially not NOW.” For the record, should have been 2 free throws and an overtime session. Laker fans, don’t try to argue otherwise.

• Michael Posted: May.28 at 1:19 pm
  BullS**t. The spurs had more freethrows than the lakers. Every call went their way, the Lakers had 4 different players with 3 fouls before halftime. Kobe takes 29 shots and doesn’t get to the foul line once, not to mention the fact the fishers shot hit the rim and the Lakers should have got the ball back with a full shot clock instead of two seconds left.

• BK Posted: May.28 at 1:24 pm
  First of all…I’m glad that it was a no call because like Reggie and Charles was saying after the game Brent Barry is basically an inexperienced idiot when he comes to thoughs situations. How many times have you seen a late shot attempt and the offensive player gets the defensive player in the air and does not try to go through him….instead he tries to aviod the contact and heave a 40 foot three point attempt…idiot. Second of all…it should have never came down to that because the refs missed the call on the laker’s shot attempt that grazed the rim and they didn’t reset the shot clock. So at the end of the day Karma’s a bitch!!!!

• Reggie Evans Posted: May.28 at 1:24 pm
  Lakers fans ARE admitting it was a foul. The whole point is, if you are going to argue that foul, then every other foul before that has to be put into scrutiny, because theoretically, there is no difference between a botched call in the first quarter and a botched call on the last play of the game.

• bill breedley Posted: May.28 at 1:28 pm
  the none call was a makeup for the bullcrap goaltend and the none reset after fisher’s miss. guess we can call it even stevens with the bad calls.

• speedy Posted: May.28 at 1:37 pm
  THAT WAS A NON CALL .
  For all you basketball experts from SA if you fake and your defender gets in the air you should never get the call if you go into your defender and create the contact yourself.
  Barry would have had an almost open shot if he would have gone right up after he got the ball.

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 1:52 pm
  Yes, speedy, and thousands of free throw attempts off of said head fake and lean in by the likes of Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Rip Hamilton, Dwayne Wade, etc. tell a different story.

• Rico Posted: May.28 at 1:53 pm
  Total foul….all you lakers fans can eat mad butthole tonight knowing you got away with murder…i hate you!

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 1:54 pm
  Mad butthole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• B. Long Posted: May.28 at 1:59 pm
  @Eboy: Dwayne Wade would have gotten that call. What’s he doing these days anyway? Hmmm…

• speedy Posted: May.28 at 2:01 pm
  Hey Eboy if the refs would have been good refs and called the game the way it should have been called Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, Rip Hamilton, Dwayne Wade, etc. would have shot a lot less free throws in their careers .
  I don’t like players that create contact after you are in the air because you obviously can’t change your direction.
  Barry could have decided the game by himself by just taking the open three but he left the decision to the refs .
  Think about it that way.

• speedy Posted: May.28 at 2:05 pm
  One other thing Eboy. Dwayne , Michael and all those other clutch players would have shot this three because it was as open as it could be in the last second of such a game but Bones thought about it to much . He was simply the wrong player for this.

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 2:06 pm
  I doubt it would have been a lot less, speedy. Those guys are all creative and talented enough to have figured out other ways to draw fouls to allow high volume free throw attempts. Brent Barry, unfortunatley for Spurs fans, is not that guy. B Long, besides rehabing and worrying Heat season ticket holders by still wanting to play USA basketball in two months, I imagine being trapped in the stomach lining of Star Jones would be a good place to look for him.

• Eboy Posted: May.28 at 2:07 pm
  And speedy, to be clear, Dwyane would have, in all probability, missed a wide open three.

• speedy Posted: May.28 at 2:09 pm
  Yes but he would not have hessitated.

• B. Long Posted: May.28 at 2:16 pm
  Dwayne def. would have fallen down and gotten back up. Making the shot or getting the call not so sure.

• Rico Posted: May.28 at 2:20 pm
  Leave Eboy alone….he’s my friend!

• GOSPURSGO Posted: May.28 at 2:21 pm
  yeah that was a clear cut foul and I thank the Association for bringing such honour (or lack thereof) to the game . . . as long as Kobe travels and his team gets a few no-calls in the process, everybody wins right?

• TMT Posted: May.28 at 2:26 pm
  San Antonio Kryptonite - Dereck Fisher

• Chukaz Posted: May.28 at 2:33 pm
  It was a foul, but he put the ball on the floor after the contact, which would’ve given him 2 freebees. Lakers would’ve won in overtime anyways. Besides, why did Brent Barry get the ball with 2.1 sec left when they were down by 2? That ball should’ve gone to Timmy, Tony, or Manu.

• bostwik Posted: May.28 at 2:49 pm
  The Suns got robbed against the Spurs last year. Only fitting that the favor is returned.

• TS Posted: May.28 at 2:50 pm
  How I see it:- Barry fakes, Fisher buys it and jumps straight up, Barry puts the ball on the deck and moves into Fishers space, just to make sure Fisher twists his hip to make sure he bumps Barry. Marginal call either way not enough to blow a whistle and decide a game. Refs got it right.

• Jess Posted: May.28 at 2:55 pm
  The L is definately doing what they can to get a Celtics-Lakers finals..ridiculous I mean if thats not a foul I dont know what is….The officiating all game was disgraceful and the refs made up for it at then end with calling everything against the Spurs and the no call at the end…terrible…I dont think I am the only one who is slowly losing faith in the way the game is being called..wow..oh and the ball went to Barry because he was knocking down shots all night..why, last night, would it go to Manu..because of his solid 4 points?

• Shawn Bradley Jr. Posted: May.28 at 2:56 pm
  Timmy travels more than the Timmy character in South Park.

• riggs Posted: May.28 at 3:07 pm
  mad butthole? u HAVE to be from ny, u just have to.

• Sarah Posted: May.28 at 3:46 pm
  Yeah, it was a foul. And yeah, no ref wants to “give away” the game but you better believe if that was Kobe Bryant and not Brent Barry — whistle, 3 free throws, game over. But the Spurs giving the Lakers 20 second chance points by halftime is what lost that game. And yes, as a Spurs fan, it hurts to say that. But I can’t deny that they killed themselves with gross negligence on the defensive boards. Now all I can hope for is a turnaround like the Clutch City Rockets pulled off on Chuck and his boys in ‘95. I mean think about it, Houston was looking to repeat that year, they had traded away a piece of the former year’s chip only to see him return, a lucky 13 years have passed since then… hey, a girl can dream.

• d.Y. Posted: May.28 at 4:13 pm
  This is Barry’s fault. If he had stepped forward and taken the shot instead of dribbling back, he would have gotten 3 free throws.

• palpatine Posted: May.28 at 4:27 pm
  if barry would have tried to shoot while he was being fouled it should have been called , but he didnt’ , anyway i think it kinda balances out..cuz the spurs were getting so many calls their way for basically the whole game

• Jukai Posted: May.28 at 4:33 pm
  Mad butthole!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• celtics=champs Posted: May.28 at 4:48 pm
  I really don’t like the Spurs but man was that ever a foul. The Spurs deserved that call. That was some some poor officiating all game long by Joey Crawford. I think Brent Barry could have got the call if he could had sold the foul a little better by maybe jumping into Fish and falling down. Honestly, I think Manu Ginobolli, or Kobe could have sold that as a foul simply because they know how to sell jumpshooting fouls. In other words, they are real flop artists. Still, bad call by Joey, that’s all they’re is to it.

• Rico Posted: May.28 at 4:53 pm
  Barry’s fault? It’s T-mac’s f’ing fault! I don’t know how he did it, or why he’s gotta be all up on Stern’s jock….but he’s the reason we’re stuck with an LA vs BOS finals…..damn T-mac!

• AC Posted: May.28 at 4:54 pm
  Damn you Joey Crawford….

• Hursty Posted: May.28 at 5:19 pm
  refs dont call fouls on jumpshooters, its incidental contact.

• P.Slight Posted: May.28 at 5:30 pm
  Hursty is correct, besides NBA hardly ever let games be decided at the foul line…but if Barry wouldve jumped into him while shooting once Fisher was airbourne his chances of drawing the foul wouldve been greater (at least thats what Scooter Barry wouldve done)

• B. Long Posted: May.28 at 5:47 pm
  This is way off the sub. but when Greg Popivich was in the Air Force Academy was he in an actual plane crash or does he hunt with Dick Chaney cause his face gives my kid nightmares. I have to put parental controls on the press conf.

• underdog Posted: May.28 at 5:47 pm
  Don’t bet on that Lakers-Celtics finals. The Pistons gonna kick some ass in Beantown tonight.

• kronos Posted: May.28 at 5:54 pm
  I guess it would be a foul if you can ignore the fact that barry traveled before the contact

• Russ Bengtson Posted: May.28 at 6:04 pm
  So no one remembers this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwO7m-1T9DE

• Kevin Posted: May.28 at 6:09 pm
  i like Detroit more than Boston too somehow :/

• Genenene Posted: May.28 at 6:19 pm
  I hear you Jolst. Watch the replay again, guys. Barry switches pivot feet before Fisher touches him. TRAVELING. Still, the refs suck… and so did the Spurs ability to grab defensive rebounds… THAT’s why they lost.

• John E. Sanford Posted: May.28 at 6:31 pm
  That was a foul, but it’s not what won/lost the game. Spurs fans should be bitching about the lack of defensive rebounding last night. Especially in the 1st half.

• youngmuggsy Posted: May.28 at 6:34 pm
  Elyse: kobe didnt shoot free throws becos he was just shooting Js all night

• youngmuggsy Posted: May.28 at 6:39 pm
  i like the spurs but the way they performed on the boards (particularly the way the guards played) was pathetic, they didn’t deserve to win that game anyways in my opinion.

• davidR Posted: May.28 at 6:49 pm
  spurs lost when they missed 10 of 11 shots

• G Diesel Posted: May.28 at 6:50 pm
  As a Laker fan, I have to admit that Kobe made lots of questionnable decisions last night. He was bordeline awful. There I said it!

• Dacre Posted: May.28 at 7:37 pm
  As a former referee, that was a seriously bad non-call. Sternbot should review it…(maybe replay the last 2 seconds…ala-HAWKS stylee`?). As a self-declerating Spurs-hater good non-call. “Continuation, play on”. Buzzer.
  Good game guys. See you for game 5.

• Reggie Evans Posted: May.28 at 8:10 pm
  I am eating mad butthole for dinner.

• Orlando Posted: May.28 at 8:31 pm
  Yes it was a foul…but at that time of the game ……brent barry….he didnt shoot the ball on the foul……I agree on the no call……oh and not to mention Duncan walked from Montreal to NYC on that play.

• Diogo Posted: May.28 at 8:52 pm
  He traveled before the foul. Even when the Spurs are right, they are wrong.

• NZ Baller Posted: May.28 at 10:35 pm
  Good riddance SA

• Jay Posted: May.29 at 2:30 am
  Yo me being a hardcore Laker fan since I was little I still have to admit it WAS a foul even if it was a lil baby tick tack foul because Brent Barry avoided the contact… However, most people seem to forget that the possession before that was a bad call where D Fish shot the ball and it glanced off Robert Horry’s leg… the officials failed to make the clock operator reset the shot clock when Fish’s shot actually did touch the rim before it went out of bounds… if they call the reset of the shot clock the Lakers inbound the ball with the ability to burn the clock and the last possession doesn’t happen… so all I want to say is… 2 bad calls in a row! step ya game up refs!

• Marco Posted: May.29 at 4:43 am
  What’s really so funny about Duncan’s slam and the walk is, that the NBA made it the ‘Dunk of the Night’ on NBA.com! I mean the refs not calling it is one thing, but putting it on the hightlights is flat out ridicolous! And by the way, Spurs fans (I wonder that they exist) complaining about calls is like Jabba the Hutt complaining about a lack of food…I just say ‘Flopping Manu’!

• Slobodan Chutzpah Posted: May.29 at 7:08 am
  Oh, puh-leeaze. The Spurs never led in that game. You don’t win doing that. End of story.

• marcgar Posted: May.29 at 10:39 am
  as a spurs fan i’m pissed at the spurs. lakers havent really beat the spurs except in game 2. the spurs are beating themselves. they cant hit a bucket and these shots missed are open not shots being contested from the lakers. but laker fans need to stop justifying the win. it was a bad call and should have gone into overtime. as bad as the spurs play the lakers are still barely winning. thats sad

• B. Long Posted: May.29 at 11:43 am
  @marcgar: A Spurs fan complaining about any type of call in this game or otherwise is like Dick Chaney being pissed that Halliburton employees get shot at by Iraq citzens.

• youngmuggsy Posted: May.29 at 5:40 pm
  Manu only flops to level the playing field. He knows he’s not going to get the lebron james calls everytime he drives to the hoop so he has to improvise to keep the game fair. superstars like kobe or lebron never have to flop because they dam near get a trip to the free throw line everytime they miss a layup (or in lebron james’ case, even if he does make a layup). Still not bothered bout that fish foul tho becos the way the spurs played was pathethic, it was like they forgot how to do the simplist things like box out.