[Highlight] LeBron James scores off the whistle, the basket won’t count to his dismay (with a replay)
Like genuinely what is the explanation for that not being continuation?
This is legitimately one of the most perfect examples of what a continuation foul is and should be, and somehow the refs call that the way they did!? I hate to be one of those people that says this stuff is rigged but it’s one of two possible explanations that I can think of for why that foul was called the way it was. Either that or the refs are just straight up terrible at their job
both can be true. not saying both are true here. not saying they arent both true here either. just that both can be true.
LeBron had like three and 1s tonight that didn’t count… and probably 3-4 other times he got fouled and no calls…
It’s insane how bad of a whistle he gets for being one of the two greatest ever and drives a ton…
He has only had 5 free throws in this series so far which is ridiculous for how he plays
We got vibe coding now we get vibe refereeing. These clowns have zero consistency in anything
Grok is this an and-one?
Grok would just respond with the hard R
RefereeR
Continuation has always been the weirdest rule to me. Just fucking flip a coin and on a heads it’s a shooting foul and a tails it’s on the floor, at least that’s consistent
Legit that’s like half the fucking rules in this game lmao it’s just whatever the ref feels like doing in a given moment. Travel, double dribble, carry, push off, continuation, reckless close out, illegal screen, etc etc, all of these are just up to the referees discretion basically and their discretion changes every 4 seconds lol
This is why I would be in favor of outright removing some rules or simplifying them, just slowly give the refs less ways to affect the game
Most of those are at least pretty consistent. I feel like continuation is truly random lol
Team to team they’re consistent
41 year old Lebron can’t get continuation calls on actual and-1 plays but let these other players fall on the ground and throw some bs up and its a shooting foul. Genuinely makes no sense to me
This series about to make LeBron retire
Let’s be honest, would you want to play with what it has become? I’m the furthest from a conspiracist but let’s be frank here… we are running out of other possibilities.
First off…how much money we talking? I’ve done worse for less.
Unfathomable reffing today
Just makes no sense at all because the play directly after this they call the same exact foul but that time they say it’s a shooting foul and Reaves shoots 3 free throws.
Reaves randomly gets a better whistle than many superstars including LeBron lol
Garbage refs bro
If I’m Lebron, I’m getting fined 500k after this game and airing EVERYTHING out about OKC officiating.
I mean he’s 41 and the league has just made it very clear they’ve moved on from him. Can’t even get that call as one of the GOATs in a Lakers uniform lmao. Just fucking rip it in the post game presser at this point.
Even in his first prime, he wasn’t getting those calls. He never had a good whistle.
Genuinely the worst officiated game I’ve personally witnessed
They outdo themselves every year, seriously
I knew this was gonna be clipped. People always complain about refs, but this one was pretty bad
How much different would chatgpt be at referee job??
yea these refs aren’t real
league doesn’t LeBron to get a 5th ring hate to see it
I wanna know what Clay Bennett have on Adam Silver.
Probably has Silver’s nudes
It’s a 5v8 playing against OKC. The trivial calls, the bad calls, the forfeited calls, it is what it is.
Until Adam Silver does something about it none of this matters.
It’s exactly why everyone was pulling for Haliburton and the Pacers last year. Nobody really gives a fuck about OKC.
if nothing else, this series is gonna make the league take a long a looooong look at the way the thunder play
I don’t understand the rules anymore.
Reminder Fanduel pays more per ad that we see then the nba paid their refs for this game.
Reminder; multiple people got fucked on more money than the refs got paid for this game.
Definitely a safe and protected league that can’t be influenced with a rightly placed 5-100 k depending on the game and impact :)))
Alright I can’t possibly explain this one, I have no idea how this wasn’t continuation
It’s crazy when even the announcers are explicitly saying it’s a bad call, this isn’t the only call like this this game by the way.
Adam silver just needs to go, he watched the nba in 2010-2016 and decided he needed to change the league. Nobody can honestly say watching an nba game now is close to as entertaining as it was back then. I think the talent from top to bottom is better but this is barely basketball anymore. Adam silver is the worst commissioner in any sport I’ve ever seen, he turned my favorite sport and league into whatever this is
The man experiments and changes things too much. Has no sense of tradition.
Yo check these refs Polymarket accounts.
Wouldn’t it make more sense to rig it the other way around then? Lakers are huge underdogs in this series so the payout would be much better.
this was ridiculous
How many upvotes if Shai got this call?
Bring in the AI strike zone robots.
Human refs are insufferable
If anything this proves the NBA doesn’t want the Lakers or a big market to win.
And one
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Refs were inexplicably terrible
This whole playoffs been plagued with fuck ass officiating.
continuation calls in nba are the is-it-a-catch rules in nfl. there used to be a time these things are cut and dry.
I’m not saying the refs was the difference of the game, because the Lakers sucked to close out the game and were clearly outplayed by OKC.
But the bad whistles were still infuriating.
Look. Ive been a Seattle/OKC fan right before the move. Been through the ups and downs with this team. Its embarrassing watching this team right now and how the refs call fouls.
The nba officiating is broken. Also, fuck OKC. I hate watching this team play. Never seen a team getting every fucking whistle while also being able to foul on defense literally EVERY SINGLE PLAY.
I remembering looking at my prime player in utter shock on this one. Like no one could even argue it debatable lol.
What are we even doing here?
I don’t care if you 100% think OKC was going to win anyways, but this type of sht is not only robbery, it ruins momentum and affects mentality.
If refs simply did their jobs, this would’ve been a much closer game.
He picked the ball up. Shot it. Made it. What was the reason? Literally everyone was confused. Are they just changing the rules to the game realtime?
JJ should have gotten ejected. Shit needs to escalate. OKC is allowed to play a different game.
Reminds me of klays foul on harden in 2018 off a three.
This was so bad the refs should get fined for this one
Only caught the 4th cause I was working, but damn the reffing in that quarter alone was god awful. How this wasn’t continuation is beyond me
The craziest part is both Cason and LeBron put the hands up like “WHAT?!?” NBA players goofy af lol
I know this is a clear cut example of how terrible the officiating is in the league, But JJ about ready to have aneurysm is the funniest thing ever 😂😂😂
Not continuation in the slightest. He’s clearly bracing for impact and trying to get foul shots. Cool it went in, but that’s not a basketball shot.
You have not the slightest idea what you’re talking about. He picked up the ball before the impact, that was absolutely a continuation. Please delete this before you make a fool of yourself.