Regardless of how accurate this is, there's no getting around the fact that OKC made a number of mental errors in the last minutes (Westbrook particularly) that cost them a game they could have evened the series with.

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Westbrook made one mistake and that was the foul on Chalmers off the jump ball. He was the only reason they were in the game in the first place. Lebron is just on a different level than KD, and it's not even close.

 

What financial incentive is there for a star player to throw a game in the NBA finals? This is not the 1919 Chicago Black Sox. Kevin Durant and Lebron James make too much money to take the risk of losing their careers and their reputations. And marginal players don't influence a game enough to be asked to participate. Lebron hit two clutch baskets down the stretch--the three-pointer and a bank shot when he first started cramping up. There is no way he would not be giving his all, especially now that he's one win away from his first NBA championship...

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What financial incentive is there for a star player to throw a game in the NBA finals? This is not the 1919 Chicago Black Sox. Kevin Durant and Lebron James make too much money to take the risk of losing their careers and their reputations. And marginal players don't influence a game enough to be asked to participate. Lebron hit two clutch baskets down the stretch--the three-pointer and a bank shot when he first started cramping up. There is no way he would not be giving his all, especially now that he's one win away from his first NBA championship...

Not the players... the refs and david stern

 

I figured this out conclusively when I bet that Lebron would get 40 points in his return to Cleveland post Decision. He had 38 at the end of the 3rd and sat out the entire 4th. There was a ton of action on the over 40 line right before the game too. (Like more than there should have been).

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Some definite bad calls in Game 4, especially a foul call on Westbrook where there was no foul, Harden being called for a foul when and also twice Westbrook was pushed in the act and nothing was called. Miami really flop quite a lot (Clippers and Miami lead this category) so I'm looking forward to when there's some form of punishment for that shit.

I've trailed off my LeBron hate bandwagon but man this team is hard to like. The way Bosh reacts after a simply hustle play really pisses me off. And the fact that they referred to themselves as 'Heatles' in the pre-game thing adds to that. But I digress. The refs have a hard job but they literally have come out and said they dont call certain part of the rules as they were intended or even how they should be, its no surprise so many calls are blown. Unless wholesale changes are made to the system and how they're instructed to call games, I dont see an end to this.

 
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Some definite bad calls in Game 4, especially a foul call on Westbrook where there was no foul, Harden being called for a foul when and also twice Westbrook was pushed in the act and nothing was called. Miami really flop quite a lot (Clippers and Miami lead this category) so I'm looking forward to when there's some form of punishment for that shit.

I've trailed off my LeBron hate bandwagon but man this team is hard to like. The way Bosh reacts after a simply hustle play really pisses me off. And the fact that they referred to themselves as 'Heatles' in the pre-game thing adds to that. But I digress. The refs have a hard job but they literally have come out and said they dont call certain part of the rules as they were intended or even how they should be, its no surprise so many calls are blown. Unless wholesale changes are made to the system and how they're instructed to call games, I dont see an end to this.

backing off that OKC in 6 bet I imagine. I agree with the comments on officiating though. There really needs to be meaningful changes before next season.
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