I like the Spurs, but I'm out. Can't watch this shit over and over.
The NBA needs to realize that basketball is the star, not the players. What Rondo did out there was amazing. The game was enjoyable for a long time. Despite the Lebron narrative resulting in a crapton of FTs, I was intot he game. Who cares now? The game is all about the refs now.
The media will avoid the ref issue, focus on Wade making that layup with the kick. They will focus on Haslem (who deserves it), but the outcome was influenced by a sequence of game turning and deciding calls. That's all people will care about until the media machine rolls it over into Wade heroics.
People brought up the 2003 Kings. By the next season, the NBA was plastering promos with the Horry game 3 shot. That was the third game of a seven game series. That shot only mattered because the refs counted a late halfcourt shot for the Lakers. Yet, because they plastered that three over and over, the remaining story of that series got washed away.
That's how narratives work.