unless sasha vujacic is in then it’s 7 on 6 basketball, vujacic plays for the celtics whenever he is in the lakers line up, he is like a valuable 6th man for the celtics

After we’ve already had Joe Crawford and the guy who throws basketballs at fans in Game 1? How do these guys keep getting Finals assignments? Seriously? How? Does David Stern just not give a damn about his credibility problem at all?

I was looking at a lakers blog and they seem worried about the refs too, I just hope they call it evenly, they could be terrible as long as it’s terrible both ways

I`d rather see Donaghy working the game, while getting paid by the Lakers…than see Kennedy calling a Celtic game!

The Laker fans are no happier about these refs than we are.

Let’s see how it plays out.

That’s nothing, prepare for Dick Bavetta on Thursday.

good chance perk gets number 7 tonight

Great blog site, good insight and response to game 2 win. The Lakers offered up the game on a platter and you took it.

It’s unfortunate that most of the talk today is about the refs. Every story line should be about Pierce and Garnett not showing up as well as Odom and Artest for LA. What will these 4 guys bring to the table tonight? If these guys get called for 18-20 fouls collectively, this series is in trouble.

Personally, I feel that this is going to continue until game 7 when they’ll finally put the whistles away. Stern and the NBA – more than anyone else – want a 7-game series. The Finals have been a huge disappointment since when? The 80’s when the Lakers/Celtics clashed in all of those great series. Boston fans going to game 3 tonight, get ready to call in ‘sick’ tomorrow and drink a ton of coffee because this is going to be another ugly, 3-hour game dominated by the officials.

I just look forward to the game and the Celtics playing well

Well that’s nothing new for the C’s…..and hopefully like in the past they will not let the officiating get to their heads and pull out a win

The crowd is going to be fired up…and if there is bad officiating (wait…if?…lol who am I kidding here)…..

When the bad officiating starts…I hope the crowd gives it to the refs cauz all that whistle blowing is getting annoying down and slowing the pace of the game

Let them play Refs…stop ruining the finals !!

There will always be a justified suspicion of the NBA refs as long as they’re directly accountable to the league’s front office. Instead, they should be employed by a handful of competing independent contracting firms, that themselves are accountable to a board of governors (again, separate from the league).

I trust the NBA’s existing reffing operation about as far as I could throw that hack, David Stern.

Maybe we just play with no refs and let the players call fouls

in the 1984 finals, the refs called an average of 56 fouls a game

Is that the tears of Laker fans when they cry “WAHHHH WE LOST CAUSE THE SERIES WAS RIGGED” will flood LA and drown everyone in it.

Or Boston. <_<

Dan Crawford does not = Joe Crawford. Dan’s pretty reasonable.

Kennedy has a HISTORY of anti-Celtics officiating, even fighting with the coach… but the last time we saw him — which was after the story broke about him — he did a good job. It’s probable that all the media attention on him has made him both aware and wary of showing any obvious bias. So he might be ok.

Salvatore is a hopeless jerk and incompetent. He’s always a risk. But overall, the refs have NOT shown an anti-Boston bias. And that’s all I ask for at this point. I long ago gave up hope of getting actual “good officiating”. I’m very happy if we just get it unbiased. They’re gonna be bad… but at least they’re bad in both directions.

Exciting to see he’s gone for the season and might be pushed out of the league.