Friday, May 27, 2011

LeBron James' Flop A Heat-Bulls Lowlight - The Deep Dish - SB Nation Chicago


SERIOUSLY. I agree with Mr. Smith. LeBron's newly adopted fans like Dan Leberetard can apologize for LeBron all they want, but it doesn't change the fact that the dude is 6-8, 255 and can't be touched. I'm sure Miami-fan remembers the Hack-a-Shaq days when Shaquille was just pummeled to death and got no calls. Now the referee pendulum seems to have swung entirely in the other direction.

Just one in a series of missed calls that changed the outcome of this game. Not the series, because the better, more complete team won the series. But the direction and ultimately, the outcome of this game was changed -- not by the players -- but by the referees. And that should never happen in a game of this magnitude, a season-ender for Chicago. The NBA should look at this crew very closely.


LeBron James' Flop A Heat-Bulls Lowlight - The Deep Dish - SB Nation Chicago:

"LeBron James' Flop A Heat-Bulls Lowlight
by Michael David Smith • May 27, 2011 8:18 AM CDT

If you don't want American sports to turn into European soccer, where players are embarrassing themselves with horrible acting and pretending to get hurt when their opponents haven't even touched them, then you didn't like LeBron James' flop on Thursday night.


James decided to pretend he was hurt after he grabbed a rebound. The Bulls' Derrick Rose stuck his hand in James' direction, and James' reaction indicated that Rose had poked him in the eye, but the replay showed that James had just done a bad acting job, and the referee bought into it, calling it a foul on Rose.

Frankly, James should be embarrassed, and the NBA needs to do something about all the flopping. Technical fouls and fines should be assessed to players who pretend to be hit when they weren't. For the sake of the integrity of the game, players can't go around faking injuries.

James is a great player, but on this one he proved that he was just a good enough actor to fool an NBA referee into seeing a foul that wasn't there.

The video is below."
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