LeBron James fouls out as Pacers beat Heat in Game 4

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19. I see you don't watch much NBA ball

It's very rare that a ref makes those kind of ticky-tacky foul calls in the last minute when the game is on the line. It's even rarer, if ever, in a tense playoff game, and rarer still against the player everyone came to see play, not foul out. Jordan, Bird, Magic . . . they never got flagged for stuff like that, those should have been non-calls.

The players should decide the game, not the refs. And as far as rules go, both of those calls were judgement calls. Most other refs wouldn't have even called them. Maybe you don't know that Joey Crawford, that ref, has a rep for injecting himself into the outcome of games. Even one of the current Pacers was asked about the calls after the game and he said he knows to steer clear of Crawford because of his ego. The player even kissed a little butt on the air by looking into the camera and saying, "Hi, Joey. Howya doin', Joey."

Those fouls were a joke.