We've got a growing issue on our hands and it concerns the referees. And I'm not talking about the Cincinnati Bengals getting screwed by the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm talking about Lebron's nationally televised game you probably saw and the meltdown that you probably saw at the end of the Celtics Lakers game on Saturday night, one of the big centerpiece games of the year. All eyes on them, and did it deliver? It was so good. Here's the background. Lakers,
who have laid actually have been pretty good. They were eight and a half point dogs in Boston. Should have been a blowout. Everyone thought it's gonna be a blow out. Why is this thing on national TV? Kings are playing, Kings are not on nationally TV. They got flexed out for the Lakers, which is part of the course. But somehow, so way, the Lakers delivered and put up a fight
to the point where they were leading at halftime. They held on to the lead, and of course the Celtics were back like Celtics do and a game without question, that was decided by you guessed it the refs. You guessed it a non call for a star player the biggest star in the league in our last generation. Lebron James Celtics down three points with four point one seconds left to go. Jalen Brown gets a very suspect tickie
tackie and one call, heads to the line. It is now tied up, Lakers have four seconds left to go. They give the Lakers the final shot of the game. Lebron James, like the dominant player that he was in his prime, decides he's going to put his head down, go straight to the rim, goes up for a layup and then smack what a five fingers say to the hand. I guess it was his forearm. Smack gets smacked on the forearm by Jalen Brown, looks at the ref dead
in his face. No call. God damn. I don't think I've ever seen Lebron James that mad in his life. None never seen it. Fell down to the ground in what was either some sort of Minnesota Timberwolves play in glue yourself to the court experiment or an overly dramatic
wine but it was a full on tantrum. Pat Beverly was so mad at the non call he somehow takes a DSLR camera from the cameraman to show the ref that his hand his arm was actually slapped by Jalen Brown or or maybe Jason Tatum and one of a more egregious non cause of the season, and that bringing out that was a whole new thing. I'd never seen someone grab a camera from a photographer to show the reft,
but that's where we're at. Wasn't something that was reviewable, And of course it cost the Lakers the game one hundred percent because they would have set Lebron to the line with almost no seconds left on the clock, they would have been up to they would won the game, but instead, because of Pat Beverly's antics before the game, even the ot even begins, two free throws for the Boston Celtics tip off, and now they're leading, and they never give up the lead for the rest of the game.
Lakers lose. Not even a question that it was completely blown, not even a question that the game was stolen. They asked Darvinham what he thought about it. Here's what he had to say.
I mean, as much as I know I can't speak to anyone but myself, as much as you try not to put it on officiating, it's becoming increasingly difficult. Yeah, there's a bunch of stuff we could have did better in this game, but for the most part, we competed our behinds off, played the right way, played together, state aggressive, playing downhill, playing in the paint. And it's unfortunate that, you know, the game ends on a play like that.
It's it's it's unfortunate, especially with and you know, I don't. You don't ask for favoritism. You just asked for consistency.
You don't ask for favoritism, You just ask for consistency. Later on, he says, the best player on Earth can't get a call. It's amazing. Braun wasn't as angry as I thought he would be. But he was just just sad, just resigned, some some sort of emotion I had never seen from Lebron. So they ask him challenging, challenging.
I don't get it. I don't get it. I'm attacking the paint just as much as any of the other guys in his lead as shooting double digit free throws in the And I don't want to say.
That shooting double I should be shooting double digit free throws a nightem getting into the lane just as much as these other guys, I just do not get it.
Well.
According to Dan Wolkee, the League immediately reached out to the Lakers to confirm that, yes, the refs indeed did blow them the call and Tatum should have been called for the foul that would have given Braun two shots from the line to win the game. Last two minute reports said the same thing even they had. Ref Eric Lewis admitted that they blew the call. Right after the game. They asked him what was up, and this is what he had to say. Hey, uh, why was Patrick Beverley
assessed a technical foul at the end of regulation? His actions were inappropriate in addressing resentment to a non call. It looked like he brought a camera out. Was he trying to show you something? Yes, that was part of his inappropriate actions. It looked like there was contact on Lebron's drive at the end of regulation. Why was there no foul call? And what did you see? There was contact at the time during the game, We did not see a foul. The crew missed the play. No shit,
that was very obvious. It was egregious. Here's the thing. Blown calls happened. It sucks. YadA, YadA, YadA. YadA. But if you're a Lebron James and you are the LA Lakers, or you are a Laker fan, you should lose your goddamn mind about this. Why because it is affecting whether or not you can go to the playoffs or not. This is the fourth time in the last two months the Lakers have been hosed in the last minute of a game that has cost them said game three times.
The league admitted their mistakes the fourth time when they said Russell Westbrook wasn't fouled on a game winning attempt where Joe El Embiid literally grabbed his wrist, probably one of the most egregious of the bunch. So if you were to add those four wins that were stolen from the Lakers, I can't even believe I'm discussing it this way because I hate them so much. The Lakers are
currently twenty three and twenty seven. If they had won those four games, they would be twenty seven and twenty three, which looks at the standings, would be fourth place in the West, a game out of third place. Instead, they are sitting right around tenth, and that is a massive difference with the West and turmoil. According to the Lakers'
official Last two Minute report. There have been This needs to be said, there have been thirty four incorrect calls or non calls in the final two minutes of nineteen games that the league classifies as close. Twenty one of those thirty four incorrect calls have gone and favored the Lakers. So you might say when the Lakers get more calls. But four games now in the last two months have been stolen. And I'm going to predict that some team at some point is going to get screwed out of
the playoffs by a bad call. They will. There will be a team that because of a bad call ends up missing the play and makes missing the playoff. Maybe it's the Lakers. If I'm a d and I am Russ and I am Braun, I would not be happy. I would feel like we are gelling at the right time, and somehow, some way we just cannot buy a win.
We are getting wins pulled out from under us. And it is turning a team that could be quote unquote successful or improving to a team that has really no recourse, really no hope, really no desire to do anything else. If they get to the playoffs and we aren't are healthy. The Lakers will be dangerous, but it looks like it might be difficult for them to do that the way that things are going, if the refs don't get out
of the way. Moving on, so we got to talk about this new news about Bob Myers, Bob Myers GM of the Golden State Warriors. There are some things rumbling about him. We know the Warriors have had a tough year so far. They had the punch that was heard around the world with Draymond Green and Jordan Poole. It's
even gotten stranger than that. Currently they are sixth in the West twenty five and twenty four, but also two and a half games out of thirteenth place, So things are teeter tottering on either success or brink of disaster. The West, like I just said earlier, is an absolute meat grinder, and this team is still six to eighteen on the road. So there's some things going on. There's some issues for our dubs. We don't know where they're gonna land, whether it's gonna get fixed or smoothed out.
But in the midst of all of this quote unquote, we'll call it instability inconsistency comes the news the Bob Myers, the architect of the dynasty. You could argue also Jerry West is unhappy. It might be on the move. Bob Myers, the architect of the dynasty, might be on the move. So he recently said in a podcast about leadership, he said this about his future in the Bay. He said, well, I do really like what I do now. I love
our group. I don't think it's anything immint as far as stepping outside of this job, but it is healthy to ask where you're at and what you're doing. And since then, the rumor mill has been buzzing, where will Bob Myers go? Why is he may be unhappy? The most likely scenario if he does go, apparently as a move to Los Angeles to rejoin with Jerry West and a very very rich owner in Steve Baumer. The ruler
is suspect. It does make sense though, considering that Myers wants to be the highest paid GM in the league. That's the thing is, you've got Lake of paying a lot of money to all these plays, deep into the luxury tax, and they're not winning to the level this year that they expect. And then you have Bob Myers saying, hey, guys, I too need to be paid. I am on an expiring contract. What are you going to do next? Is Meyers unhappy in Golden State? I don't know. I don't
think that's the right word for it. Maybe he's burned out, Maybe he needs a new challenge, maybe he needs some more money. It's a very high pressure job, especially considering you've got that half a billion dollar payroll that you're staring at and expectations from an owner of multi generational, dynastic runs. But listen, the Clippers are a good job. This could be another opportunity to reunite with Jerry West, and for me, that would probably be a very good combination.
I know that they like Lawrence Frank in LA, but I don't know that you turned down an opportunity to get Bob Myers. The stability, though for the Warriors for our Dubs, has been in large part due to Bob Myers being the captain of the ship. He's one of the very few talent agents that have ever come into the front office of a team and immediately succeeded. Franchise faces huge decisions ranging from what to do with Clay to Draymond Green, to how the two timeliner proach is
going to go. You've got two or three cornerstone pieces that you thought Wiseman and Moody who are very far away from being starters, and the other one and Jonathan kaminga very raw So it might be the right time for Bob Myers to step away. Since his contract was up in December, there has been no news on a new negotiation. This could be the final year for Bob Myers. Wouldn't that be something? And I'll be honest as a lifelong Dubs fan. Without Bob Myers, things just would not be the same.