Ruzious wrote:Remember that Laker/Portland series more than a decade ago back when Sheed and Pippen were on Portland. The Blazers had something like a 15 point 4th quarter lead, and then the officials took over. The NBA will likely never live that down.
Well, the NBA has made sure to play the clip of Kobe's oop to Shaq for the lead enough to make at least some forget. And then there's Game 6 of Lakers/Kings where Sacto was up big and every whistle started to go against the Kings. What do people remember? The shot of Staples Center erupting when Horry hit the final three.
For all of the obvious times the officials have decided games, Stern and the league have remained largely untouched. No reason to think he won't do it again, especially since this will be his last Finals. We can only hope Adam Silver will make some changes once he's in charge.
More wishful thinking, I know...