"Pop should know that losing to the Clippers, in LA, in the 1st round can cost you your job." -- Marc Jackson
Tim Duncan carries his drunk teammate, Aron Baynes, onto the bus. TMZ Reporter: You guys played great! Aron Baynes: *smiling like a buffoon* THANKS MAN! Tim Duncan: Shut up.
Talked to my friend, who operates the clippers scoreboard. -Playoff games have a NBA assigned 3rd party operating the game/shot clock. The person working game 7 was the regular season Laker's guy. -The refs have game clock remote packs on their belts in addition to the guy at the table. Whomever pushes it first deactivates the other buttons (like jeopardy buzzers). The table guy didn't push the button. According to the electronic records of EVERY time every button is pushed, it was referee Monte McCutchen. (sp?) The punk let Pop and the Spurs owner scream at the table even though he knew he made the mistake, even admitting it after the game.
I read that the refs were the ones who started the clock too. They screwed the Spurs. Kawhi had good positioning on that initial play. He didn't the second time around (not surprisingly). The refs should have at least given the Spurs another timeout or something...considering they were the ones who ruined it. That was complete BS. NBA also said that there were no missed/wrong calls in the final two minutes of the game, which is completely false. ESPN highlights also completely left out CP3's gifted free throws and the clock controversy.
@thkthebest agreed. How they didn't at least award them a full timeout, along with the BS call gifted to CP3 shows the refs intentions for that game, the series, and the playoffs.
Discussion about CP3 FTs at 5.50 min and the clock dysfunction with an ex NBA ref at the 10 min mark ... the same ref screwed SAS twice
