Last night’s game was “sports entertainment.”

Remember, the league came very close to stealing game two, but the face missed the jump shot at the end and the heel went off kayfabe by winning the game.

Game three, the face got to whack the heel with the folding chair while Bobby The Brain Heenan was distracting the referee.

To extend the wrestling analogy, it’s in the league’s best interest to have both teams look evenly matched and the series to go 7 games. Their bias is ultimately with whichever team is behind. That’s how pro wrestling became fake, to drum up more excitement and make more money. If we win next game, we’ll get hosed for Game 5. If the Spurs win, we’ll finally get a fair whistle on Wednesday night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/community/comments/1mnrvm5/i_wanted_more_of_the_darkest_timeline/#lightbox

Section III—Number of Players

If the ball is put into play and remains in play with one team having six or more players on the court, a non-unsportsmanlike technical foul will be assessed on the team with too many players and such team would lose possession if it had possession at the time the violation was discovered.

There was no basis whatsoever for not enforcing this straightforward rule and there’s no “well, the team with six men on the court during play was just seeing if they should make a challenge” exception.

The refs just ho-hum “waived” the technical foul, I guess because reasons.

He’s not on MSG though. I mean, this is insane

You don’t have to be on the MSG Network to describe what you see.

And he described Wemby’s violent hit on Brunson as both sides being bad. That is willful obfuscation.

Don’t forget the lesson of The Wire Season 5, Owen: some of the biggest villains in Baltimore were the guys at the Sun whose job it was to tell you about all this shit.

He’s not on MSG though.

But it means he was intentionally holding back. He can hold back the remedy — tech — that he likely would have advocated on MSG, but he’s not bound by “fairness” to not report the events on the court. He didn’t really even tell the audience what happened.

go ahead jimmy d – promote him permanently to the A team…

nike can go call spurs’ games…

I knew they were trying to get a review, I knew the ball was inbounded and it was too late, and I knew the game was stopped after Harper walked on the floor and honestly I expected the refs to actually give the Spurs the fucking review they wanted because that’s how fucked everything was.

I didn’t actually expect a technical to be called against the Spurs because I knew the game was fixed, I was just simultaneously mortified that the Spurs weren’t penalized and weirdly relieved that they weren’t granted the challenge. I have never seen something like this in an NBA game, it just did not compute in my brain.

That’s more the role of Jefferson and Legler.

Who, by the way, are terrible.