If I click on the link will the result of today's game in anyway be displayed?

It's not currently, but they have some "top news links" sidebar which might change. I wouldn't risk it if you really wanted to avoid a spoiler.

With four seconds to play in Game 4 and his team trailing by 2, LeBron put his head down, dribbled as fast as he could and prayed Michael Pietrus would either bump him or trip him. If you watch the clip, he's moving so fast that it would have been humanly impossible for him to make a shot. That wasn't his goal. He wanted a call. And he got one. Their feet got tangled, LeBron lurched forward, and the refs bailed him out.


Dwyane Wade won an NBA Finals for Miami that way. Three years later, LeBron nearly saved Cleveland's season that same way. It's a reprehensibly effective strategy that has nothing in common with anything we would ever see on a playground, an intramural game or a one-on-one battle in someone's backyard. I have been writing this column for 12 years dating back to my old Web site. Never have I received as many "I hate the referees" and "I hate watching these guys drive to the basket and get bailed out" and "Why can't they just let these guys play basketball and act like human beings?" e-mails as I did this spring.

TO TRUE

Look, we still don't know everything that happened with Tim Donaghy, or whether his claims of playoff fixes in the past were valid. We still don't know why Donaghy called fellow referee Scott Foster hundreds of times before and after games. We still don't know why certain referees get assigned to certain games, why Bennett Salvatore always seems to be involved when a home team needs a win to change the momentum of a series, why Joey Crawford keeps getting assigned to Spurs games, why Danny Crawford keeps getting assigned to Mavericks games, why Bill Kennedy would get assigned to a big Celtics game only six weeks after an argument cost Doc Rivers money. We are told that referees don't matter, but that's the thing: They do.

Why indeed ??

So Lebron drew a foul, dcanwade what is wrong with that? A foul is a foul!!!

Then the wade comment is saying that Wade did it the same way by forcing the contact with his skill. So that is saying nothing wrong with the officials there just that a foul is a foul!

If a player gets a player in the air and they go straight up then the player jumps into them that shouldn't be a foul. However, in most cases as the example with Lebron if they get a player in the air and that player is going towards the offensive player and the offensive player jumps towards the player initiating the contact then that is a FOUL!!!! Unless you feel the player must now jump around the player to avoid the foul?

Lebron always gets bailed out when charging through players . Hope Orlando smash the Cavs in game 6 .

Love to see the peacock leave the arena without strut and witout chance of championship ring .

What if the player is running sideways and the offense initiates contact and then falls down like a soccer player.

Everyone watching the Lebron play could tell what was going to happen as soon as Lebron drove.

I would suggest it is why the USA team struggles at International comps, that would never get called internationally.

I still can't believe there's not a minimum beep test or something that the refs have to pass. Some of those 60 year old guys surely can't keep up with ridiculous athletes.