crowd around the beleagued referees<\/a> at the end of an 18-point loss to the Thunder in Game 2. The number of free throws was nearly even, favoring OKC 26-21. There are no bigger whiners in the league than LeBron James, Luka Doncic, Austin Reaves and Deandre Ayton, who have in their minds never committed a foul and are always fouled with no call on any possession. This is playoff basketball \u2014 grow up and play ball. The results in this series speak for themselves.<\/p>\nBob Goldstone<\/p>\n
Corona del Mar<\/p>\n
You cannot tell me that the defensive \u201cmauling\u201d allowed by NBA officials during the playoffs would be tolerated during the regular season. It almost looks like the NBA upper brass \u2014 Adam Silver and his cohorts\/consultants \u2014 have directly or indirectly \u201csuggested\u201d that referees simply \u201clet \u2018em play.\u201d<\/p>\n
This inconsistency and change of \u201cstyle\u201c by the officials has either confused or frustrated many offensive players as well as some fans. To me, a foul is a foul, period! Considerations like superstar or rookie, home team or visitors, the fourth quarter versus the first, closing minutes or seconds of a game, regular season versus the playoffs should not matter.<\/p>\n
Rick Solomon
Lake Balboa<\/p>\n
I\u2019m watching Lakers-Thunder Game 2 and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is running into people and getting the Michael Jordan treatment. Everything is a foul against the Lakers. On the another hand, LeBron James is getting the stuffing beat out of him and no calls. Coach JJ Redick needs to bring this bias up with the media and put the spotlight on the refs. That\u2019s what Phil Jackson and Pat Riley would do. Lakers fans can start a go-fund-me page for the fine.<\/p>\n
Ed Villanueva
Chino Hills<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Broderick Turner and Thuc Nhi Nguyen reported that Lakers coach JJ Redick said, \u201cThe Thunder is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1426,51743,423,22674,129379,48,52,51,1415,13505,1838,47,50,49,129380,212,9442,8841,2504,31143,14525],"class_list":["post-307761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angels","tag-foul","tag-game","tag-good-time","tag-individual-play","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lakers","tag-lebron-james","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-michael-jordan-treatment","tag-number","tag-player","tag-playoff","tag-regular-season","tag-thunder","tag-trout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}