The irony: Lakers complain to league about calls

[Bergmaniac]

The amount of biased nonsense in this thread is too much even for a LeBron thread on the GB. LeBron gets fouled a lot without a whistle, that's an undeniable fact. More than most other players and way more than most other stars. Freaking Austin Reaves gets a way better whistle than him.

[Sixers in 4]

First of all Lebron has made a career out of bulldozing players in era where if it was anyone else they'd receive a charge.

So while I think one of those calls were missed (the elbow on the attempted dunk, the other was a clear reach in foul Lebron got his hand caught in the cookie jar) I have no issue with it. He's gotten the benefit of the doubt over his career and I have no doubt when the season ends the final tally on calls will be in his favor.

It's only an issue because the Lakers are bad and their stars are searching for excuses.

[thebigbird]

*defender punches LeBron in the face, no foul is called*

“Good no call. The human eye can't measure force on fouls. Teams are just playing good defense against him. His drives aren’t as effective as they used to be.” - The General Board brain trust

[OxAndFox]

People complaining about LeBron getting hit in the face and not getting a foul. Welcome to Domas Sabonis' life on a basketball court. He gets hit in the head more than any player I've seen and can't get a call.

While I agree LeBron does in fact get fouled on some drives with no calls, does he also get the benefit of the doubt on some calls too when he doesn't get fouled?

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[Marrrcuss]

These answers are about LeActivist. Only hate makes people THIS deaf, Dumb and blind

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[RB34]

Pretty ridiculous when you take into account all the FT love they received last season

[JRoy]

Is it to late to lock this homer/hater bait?

[CIN-C-STAR]

The refs are human and miss calls every game. There obviously isn't some leaguewide anti-Lebron agenda, lol.
If anyone has a complaint it's post players in general, but we need fewer calls not more. Not a fan of whining to the media about it.

[levon]

People complaining about LeBron getting hit in the face and not getting a foul. Welcome to Domas Sabonis' life on a basketball court. He gets hit in the head more than any player I've seen and can't get a call.

While I agree LeBron does in fact get fouled on some drives with no calls, does he also get the benefit of the doubt on some calls too when he doesn't get fouled?

With all due respect, every game I've watched Domas he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game.

I don't think LeBron is getting the benefit of the doubt very often these days. In his first Cleveland stint, he would get the most BS foul calls, so maybe he's still paying that off. But it's been over a decade since.

[AbeVigodaLive]

Well... maybe the Lakers are right about this one.

After all, it's the first time this season that the Lakers have shot fewer free throws than their opponent.

It's only the 3rd time in the past 38 regular season games that they shot fewer free throws than their opponent. In addition, opponents took more FTAs than the Lakers in 1 of the 16 playoff games. So that makes 4 times in the past 54 games.




[Note: That amazing streak started the same week that the Lakers complained bitterly after a bad call vs. LeBron in a loss to the Celtics where Boston took 19 more free throw attempts. We'll see if NBA officials start doing better after this latest complaint.]

[GeorgeSears]

The reality is that if the Lakers were 6-1 instead of 3-4 you wouldn't hear about this. This is frustration and nothing else.

According to statmuse, the Lakers are 7th in average FTAs per game by team at 24.6. LeBron is averaging 5.7 FTAs, which has roughly been his average the last 5 seasons. They're not getting robbed.

[OxAndFox]

People complaining about LeBron getting hit in the face and not getting a foul. Welcome to Domas Sabonis' life on a basketball court. He gets hit in the head more than any player I've seen and can't get a call.

While I agree LeBron does in fact get fouled on some drives with no calls, does he also get the benefit of the doubt on some calls too when he doesn't get fouled?

With all due respect, every game I've watched Domas he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game.

I don't think LeBron is getting the benefit of the doubt very often these days. In his first Cleveland stint, he would get the most BS foul calls, so maybe he's still paying that off. But it's been over a decade since.

Domas averages 3.54 fouls per game since being in Sacramento and you believe he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game. Pacers fans know how much he gets hit too. They mentioned it when he was traded to the Kings and its turned out to be true.
What you said is utterly ridiculous and with all due respect, you're full of BS.

Then you double down on it and basically say, LeBron got calls when he wasn't on my team, but now he is on my team, he doesn't.

[FrobeBryant]

People complaining about LeBron getting hit in the face and not getting a foul. Welcome to Domas Sabonis' life on a basketball court. He gets hit in the head more than any player I've seen and can't get a call.

While I agree LeBron does in fact get fouled on some drives with no calls, does he also get the benefit of the doubt on some calls too when he doesn't get fouled?

With all due respect, every game I've watched Domas he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game.

I don't think LeBron is getting the benefit of the doubt very often these days. In his first Cleveland stint, he would get the most BS foul calls, so maybe he's still paying that off. But it's been over a decade since.

Domas averages 3.54 fouls per game since being in Sacramento and you believe he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game. Pacers fans know how much he gets hit too. They mentioned it when he was traded to the Kings and its turned out to be true.
What you said is utterly ridiculous and with all due respect, you're full of BS.

Then you double down on it and basically say, LeBron got calls when he wasn't on my team, but now he is on my team, he doesn't.

I’m not speaking on the Sabonis thing but LeBron has actually gotten less free throws since he came to the Lakers. Take it for what you want, but the stats do support that.

[levon]

People complaining about LeBron getting hit in the face and not getting a foul. Welcome to Domas Sabonis' life on a basketball court. He gets hit in the head more than any player I've seen and can't get a call.

While I agree LeBron does in fact get fouled on some drives with no calls, does he also get the benefit of the doubt on some calls too when he doesn't get fouled?

With all due respect, every game I've watched Domas he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game.

I don't think LeBron is getting the benefit of the doubt very often these days. In his first Cleveland stint, he would get the most BS foul calls, so maybe he's still paying that off. But it's been over a decade since.

Domas averages 3.54 fouls per game since being in Sacramento and you believe he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game. Pacers fans know how much he gets hit too. They mentioned it when he was traded to the Kings and its turned out to be true.
What you said is utterly ridiculous and with all due respect, you're full of BS.

Then you double down on it and basically say, LeBron got calls when he wasn't on my team, but now he is on my team, he doesn't.

I didn't disagree with him getting hit, I'm just saying he's quite a handsy and physical player himself, so maybe the refs take that into account and allow contact both ways. I think this is true for players on the Grizzlies too. Draymond and Looney on the Warriors. Some players and teams brand themselves as physical and the reffing plays into that brand. Others brand themselves as finesse featherweights where the slightest thing can throw off their entire basketball axis, and are officiated as such. NBA refs call players/teams, not the game.

LeBron joined the Lakers in 2018 and left the Cavs initially 2010. LeBron got calls when he was younger and doesn't now that he's older. There have been quite a few players joining the Lakers that have said, when I was on the outside it seemed like LeBron got all the calls and now that I'm on his team, he's genuinely not getting enough. Obvious biases are obvious, but there's truth to it when you actually watch him play game in and game out.

[dk1115]

I've heard of individuals getting star calls, but this is the first I've heard a team try to get star calls.

[OxAndFox]

With all due respect, every game I've watched Domas he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game.

I don't think LeBron is getting the benefit of the doubt very often these days. In his first Cleveland stint, he would get the most BS foul calls, so maybe he's still paying that off. But it's been over a decade since.

Domas averages 3.54 fouls per game since being in Sacramento and you believe he gets away with 4 uncalled fouls a game. Pacers fans know how much he gets hit too. They mentioned it when he was traded to the Kings and its turned out to be true.
What you said is utterly ridiculous and with all due respect, you're full of BS.

Then you double down on it and basically say, LeBron got calls when he wasn't on my team, but now he is on my team, he doesn't.

I’m not speaking on the Sabonis thing but LeBron has actually gotten less free throws since he came to the Lakers. Take it for what you want, but the stats do support that.

That's why I mentioned, "While I agree LeBron does in fact get fouled on some drives with no calls, does he also get the benefit of the doubt on some calls too when he doesn't get fouled?"
Now I don't know about the free throw rate since he has been a Laker, but his FT% dipped quite a bit since being a Laker so is it plausible he hasn't been as aggressive as he was in Cleveland and Miami? Not saying that he has been, but it does stand out.

What is complete nonsense is people trying to massage a narrative like LeBron is the only superstar ever to not get superstar calls.
He gets them. All superstars do.
Another thing when you're talking abot fouls is, how many fouls are these players getting called for. LeBron has averaged 1.8 fouls per game in his career. That's insane for someone to average that few fouls in 38.1mpg.

Heck, I looked at some calls Fox got in the first Kings v Warriors game and I thought, wow is Fox getting the superstar treatment from now on? He got like 2-3 calls that definitely weren't there.

And while this has turned into a LeBron foul thread, it was the Lakers that went to the league for the whole team and mentioned LeBron, so it's not just him. The reason people don't care is what happened last year.
The Lakers averaged 26.6 FTA last season, more than any other team by almost 1 per game. The Lakers were also called for the fewest fouls in the NBA last season.

After the AS break last year that was 28.3 FTAs per game, over 2 more than their nearest team in that span. The Lakers committed just 16.4 fouls per game after the AS break last year, the fewest of anyone in the NBA, almost by 1 (0.8) less than the 2nd team. The Lakers drew 22.1 fouls per game and yep, you guessed it, that was the most in the NBA after the AS break.
For any Lakers fan to complain about officiating is dreadful. If anything the foul count is balancing out so far this season and the most amazing thing is Lakers officials even bought into it was just natural after the AS break last year. The team is shooting 5 fewer field goals per game so far, so maybe that is why the Lakers are going to the line just two fewer times per game.
Fouls drawn per game for the Lakers? 21.5 per game in 22-23 and 21.3 per game so far this season. When you count in five fewer field goals again, where is the discrepency?

[Sgt Major]

Maybe if he didn’t spend a decade acting like he’d been shot by sniper at the slightest contact there might be some empathy.

And there it is. I don't know about a decade, but since he's joined the Lakers I've hardly seen him flop to the degree of other superstars sans Jokic. The last time I remember him really flopping was in Miami in that game where he straight up winked at the camera. He's been one of the least floppiest superstars since. Even Kobe would flop more.

Also, your team's superstar was Damian Lillard. Have some perspective.

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