Bad news: Referees for Game 4

[MyInsatiableOne]

You know the NBA has major issues when there's at least one referee in every game that people rooting for both teams just pray and hope they're not the ones that get screwed over. With that said I'm glad there's no Mauer, Crawford or Salvatore tonight; those guys are beyond terrible.

[Rocky5000]

61.5% home winning percentage seems pretty favorable to me. The Lakers haven't lost at home yet in the playoffs, so having a 40% chance of winning there is fine by me. Consider these facts: The 16th team in the playoffs, Atlanta, had a home winning percentage of 61%. Only 4 teams in the west were below 61%, (Sacramento had a winning percentage of around 63.4%), so if anything these refs favor the home team at a rate less than average.

[lojowo]

quick number check, in the regular season, Home teams won over 60 percent at home anyway, so those numbers arnt as bad as they seem?

[3pt %]

Steve Javie is one of the worst, among the likes of Bennett and Mauer. Yipee...

Amen.

The only possible benefit is he loves to T guys up, and Kobe has been picking up a heap of them lately.