Maybe that small market team has someone who made special friends, a long time ago.
Maybe that someone "convinced" Stern to eliminate a referee after he ejected an important player of the small market team for laughing while on the bench.
A fact is that without that referee, that small market team, which is pretty good by the way, won a le.
Maybe that someone was not that convincing this year, and the "referee" was back blowing wistles in the playoffs. Or, rather, not blowing wistles in G4s.
And that small market team is out.
It's not good to be too greedy.
Yet another fact is that the same "referee" was officiating Boston-LA G3, which could, in all theory of course, have eliminated one of the two teams.
A further fact is that the LA star shot 13 FTs in G1 and G2 and 18 in G3.
I guess he was "attacking the rim" more........