Every announcing team has to promote their team, but the Laker play-play guy annoys me. The color man is former Piston Stu Lantz and he is OK, but the guy who eventually inherited Chicks Herns' spot gets excited as Freddy Mac and assumes that if the Lakers are trailing in crunch time, Kobe will save them.

OMG!!!! I had just finished watching Suns/Warriors and then I flipped over to NBATV and saw those highlights. GOD, did it ever put me in a foul mood to watch that game get given to Cleveland. And then LeBron was shown watching Devin Brown take his free throws, just knowing that he would make them and they would win a game they didn't deserve. That was horrible. The Sixers are celebrating and get called out of the locker room. Are there no limits to the kissingupness of the league and its officials to this arrogant kid? All those foul calls he doesn't deserve. AAARGHHHH!!!!!!

The Sixers should get an apology.LeTravel travels and flies into the lane forcing contact with everyone...and some spineless ref thinks maybe there was a foul and certainly doesn't want to get in trouble with the LeBron marketing effort that has been ongoing since before he even got out of high school. After all, we're trying to market to future fans. Let's give the Cavs a chance to win.

I tried to watch Ben after he got traded, but you know I can't. Because I can't stand to watch LeBron with all his posturing and preening and the knowledge that he will get his special treatment no matter what. Even Devin Brown admitted it. He said he was surprised he got the call because he isn't #23. AAAARGHHHH!

bah, what a lousy way to lose. That was such a BS call.

It wasn't nearly as bad as the commentary. Justice is served? Gimme a break!

Why does a player as good as LeBron need to be able to take 4 or 5 steps without putting the ball on the floor?

Same reason a dog licks his undercarriage. Because he can.

Yeah even the NBA TV studio guys said he traveled but since it wasn't called it was non -reviewable. The playoff fate of four teams changed on that one call.

If the Cavs had lost, the Pistons surely would have beaten them on Wednesday to make sure that they opened the first round on the road. Sixers may have played more inspired ball on Wdnesday to beat the Bobcats and the Bulls playing spoilers would have beaten the Raptors on Wednesday.

So the lineup this weekend would have been
Hawks at Celtics
Raptors at Pistons
Sixers at Magic
Cavs at Wizards

I don't think it is necessarily due to Cavs being the NBA's primadonnas, although it does look suspicious enough since NBA would love to see LeBron vs. Boston in the conference semis. I think it is due to the incompetence of some of the men with the whistle. It may have been an accurate call at that point nowithstanding two previously missed calls - travel on LeBron and Z shoving Dalembert into Brown with foul being called on Dalembert.

I guess we're not the only ones questioning this mess. This is from Washington:

The Shove That Shook The East - Wizards Insider

And another opinion:

Crazy Crazy Calls: Highway Robbery In The NBA