Is LeBron the most disrespected star in getting calls?

[leolozon]

Breaking News: officials swallows the whistle on final play of the game and miss a foul call. Two hours of first take on Monday on how Lebron should have gotten the foul call.

No crap he got fouled. They didn’t call it. Deal with it.


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Then why did they call a weaker foul on Brown to tie the game on the previous play? Either you swallow the whistle or you don’t.

[leolozon]

I've always said it's such an easy fix for the nba to have a 4th official sitting on the sidelines and reviewing particular plays with very little time wasted. Its 2023, we can look at stuff and render a decision pretty damn fast.

Heck, you can potentially have 3 on the sidelines looking at videos and just 1 on the court giving back the info.

Plus, no more 3 refs looking at a video replay to get a call right for way too long. Someone else can make that call. What a waste of time.

[Goomba3666]

Also. Most refs aren't making a call like THAT down the stretch. These calls are missed throughout the year.


Lebron also travels like 8 times per game and commits approx 5-6 offensive fouls per game. He's not victim to a swallowed whistle campaign.

Also no guarantee that Lebron makes either freethrow.

So it’s Ok then to whack
a shooter in the arm since the refs aren’t going to call it anyway???

Nice logic.


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Nah. Just have a feeling that the refs would rather get it wrong and watch Luka or Lebron crying on their hands and knees rather than be fooled by a flop on national TV.

I think in other scenarios, depending on who drove the ball, that whistles gets blown. But certain players cry after every missed layup. They de-legitamize themselves.

[Statlanta]

Is this LeBron disrespect, or Tatum over-respect + home cooking?

[hauntedcomputer]

dude's been pushing off on drives for two decades.

lebron tears are precious.

[WillyJakkz]

Now? Yes.

Or should I say it's been obvious over the past few yrs, namely since he got to LA that the refs haven't heard Too Short's song "Blow The Whistle".

He's the perimeter version of Shaq, he could literally get a call nearly every play due to his size but the refs feel like he should be able to handle the fouls.

[Rapsin6]

How can these refs not call a technical on James with the way he reacted after that last play? Boston should have gotten a free throw to end the game before overtime.

But Pat Bev did. Why was the tech at beginning of OT and not end of regulation? And would Lebron tech have resulted with the same free throw outcome?

[Pharmcat]

It’s crazy how he has given so much to the nba and yet people can get away fouling him in critical minutes.

[Profound23]

I'd say the top 3 of my lifetime are Lebron, Giannis, Shaq.

The bigger and stronger the player, the more the NBA allows other players to abuse them.

[FrobeBryant]

The lakers hate in RealGM is unreal. The refs have even admitted that they missed the obvious foul call and yet some shameless posters are acting like it never happened or wouldn’t have affected the outcome. Pathetic

[ajones9219]

It was a foul. It was also one of the few times Tatum has gotten a favorable whistle. Dude is constantly mugged and doesn't get calls. The difference is if Tatum threw a tantrum like LeBron did he would have been tossed from the game.

I am not going to feel bad when LeBron has been getting a favorable whistle for 2 decades

[Crunch 99]

It's sad to see Lebron making a hurculean effort at age 38 to will his team to the playoffs only to get screwed by an end of game, no-call like that.

[Bergmaniac]

It's honestly bizarre what a poor whistle LeBron has been getting for most of his career, especially in the last years. He averages only 7.8 FTA per game for his career which for the best slasher of all time who's played heavy minutes and taken plenty of shots every year is much lower than expected. His highest single season foul drawing rate is 0.506, which is very good, but significantly worse than all but one of Embiid's season averages and 8 season averages of Harden. LeBron's career foul drawing rate is 0.394, while Harden's is 0.521. And before you say "LeBron is old, he is not driving much anymore", even in his athletic prime his foul drawing rate was never at prime Harden or Embiid's level of well over 50%, it was in between 40 and 47%. And he still drives a lot even at his current age, this year 30% of his shots are at the rim and he has attempted over 8 layups per game but shoots only 6.2 FTs per game.

[dolphinatik]

I'd say the top 3 of my lifetime are Lebron, Giannis, Shaq.

The bigger and stronger the player, the more the NBA allows other players to abuse them.

lol ya dude would be hanging off shaq, no call

[Tony15]

The LeBron resentment I'm reading in response to him getting hosed is unattractive and unhealthy....

[ITYSL]

Definite missed call at the end there

LeBron clearly traveled.

No, he clearly didn't, stop lying.

No, he clearly did, stop lying. (This is fun)

[PistolPeteJR]

No thanks.

I didn’t offer for you to decline.

I think you did.

Read again.

[Ben-N1ce]

Forearm is part of the ball. Clean block.

[SweetTouch]

Game has a lot of ramifications

Damn already heard sources say Celtics ain’t winning no title this year

With all the backlash I can see why they made the decision

Damn so it’s Gianni’s again, sucks to know this and have time and money spent watching the rest of the season

[Uncle Mxy]

Poor LeBron. It's so sad how he gets SOOO disrespected. He'll never amount to anything at the rate he's going! Just tragic.