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Zbo just got fined $25K. Un freaking believable!! Refs screw up against the precious Clippers and the ESPN commentators are constantly calling them out, then the next day, they get an official apology from the NBA and dirty-playing Flake Griffin gets his second technical rescinded. The refs OBVIOUSLY screw us all night by catering to an entitled flopper every time he touches the ball and what happens? The biased/worthless TNT announcements don't say a word about the officiating, our veteran calls it out for what it is, and the freaking NBA slaps him with a $25,000 fine. I swear if it weren't for the Grizzlies, I wouldn't spend one penny on this corrupt shameful excuse for a professional sports league. There is ZERO consistency on or off the court. It's all about keeping the big markets/players happy and giving them the best shot at success. It's disgusting. We're having a tough enough of a year already without the league trying to screw us too. Screw you, NBA.

What the heck are you talking about? YOU are the one who changed this thread into yet another stage for your ridiculous "Haddadi is amazing" campaign. I thought you quit this site anyways? That sure lasted long.

If anyone cares, Sidney Lowe was arrested today... http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2013/feb/18/former-memphis-grizzlies-coach-sidney-lowe-arreste/

I've watched plenty of non-Grizzlies games on TV that Bavetta has worked and he's terrible every time.

I know they consider the officials to be part of the floor, but by actually grabbing the ball, the ref interfered with the play which I'm certain has to be against the rules. Plus, they drained about 5 seconds off the game clock and the shot clock didn't move at all. The ref should have been fined/reprimanded by the league, IMO.

There were at least 2 or 3 instances where Perkins should have been issued his second technical and ejected. The incident with Gasol was the most obvious. Perkins is probably the biggest punk in the league and the refs let him get away with his crap most of the time. Its sickening. And I completely agree about DA. NO WAY ON EARTH is that a technical foul in the NBA Playoffs. And it seemed as though they were specifically looking for something to call to wave off that 3 by Shane. We definitely didn't play that well, and OKC was on fire, but the refs wanted to make certain the Thunder got the win.

Well, you gotta give the refs props for effort. They tried to give OKC the win up until the very end.

I think its fairly obvious now that we're going to be fighting our opponent(s) along with the officials for the remainder of our Playoff run. They just don't want to give us a break. Even though today's game wasn't quite as bad as some of the San Antonio games, you could still tell the refs were somewhat favoring OKC. We just need to keep fighting through it. On a side note, I think this is the first time I've ever seen Joey Crawford officiate a game in which he didn't issue a technical foul to someone.

I literally fell asleep 10 minutes into the game. Terribly boring.

I don't think you can blame tonight's loss on the refs, but still, 5 technicals seemed excessive if you ask me. Zbo gets pushed by Boozer, and gets slapped with a T, Tony apparently does nothing and gets a T, and Shane gets a T for committing a loose ball foul. I can't understand how the league allows Joey Crawford to continue officiating. He is the most power hungry referee I've ever seen in any professional sport. The dude literally ejects players for personal fouls sometimes.

Awesome new screen name, man! Everybody stop calling me bi-polar! Im bi-WINNING!!

Wow. There was a little scuffle at the end of the Lakers/Clippers game just now and 4 players were ejected (Griffin, Davis, Odom, and Artest). Even more shocking, the Clippers won!

Wow, and I thought our 31 points at the half last night was bad. Its kinda sad to think we lost to these guys...

LOL, its completely ridiculous that in the officials' minds, it is COMPLETELY out of the realm of possibility that Kobe Bryant would throw up an air ball. The Grizzlies MUST have done something.