Lovely picture of the amazing and super talented NBA referee giving his usual smurk to Greg Popovich during a time out in last nights Game 4. As 0signal said…That is the smile of an evil man who just burned down an orphanage.

Yes, D Fish fouled Brent Barry with less than two seconds remaining. No question. But as Barry, Pop, Fisher and Kobe said - you can’t call that . Go ahead and conjure up some Joey Crawford conspiracy , or talk about how uneven the game was refereed - the Spurs went to the line 26 times in the first three quarters, and then zero in the fourth; Kobe ( 28 points ) didn’t attempt one ...

By Sam Rubenstein The Lakers outplayed the Spurs, who looked tired at home. Somehow the game came down to one final shot. You saw what happened. The non-decision was Joey Crawford’s, who famously clashed with Pop in the previous round, and once ejected Tim Duncan for looking at him (seriously). Do we have another controversy/conspiracy? © Sam Rubenstein for SLAM ...

I like Charles Barkley, but before Tuesday’s game he said something really stupid. Sir Charles said, repeatedly, that Joey Crawford officiating this game “isn’t a story.” Well, if it wasn’t a story before the game, it sure became one afterward. But I don’t want to ride just Barkley, because Marv the Perv and Collins the Crappy Coach sucked even more during the play-by-play portion of the