The officials stopped the Celtics when they drove the Lakers fouled but no calls on the other end their giving Ray Allen a cheap foul on Kobe’s 3 pointer. They took them out of their flow and could not get in the paint without getting hacked. I was way to biased and very apparent who they wanted to win. Celts gave it their best shot but its hard to beat the refs

Hi, the celtics didn’t stand a chance in the game. They weren’t just playing against the lakers, they were also battling the ref’s. The celtics could have hit every shot and the Fakers still would have won. Look at the FT discrepancy. It’s sad when the ref’s decide the game and not the players. And as far as Kobe is concerned he’s a jerk and an adulterer the lakers did not deserve to win. There should be an asterisk beside this years champion. Go Celtics you’re the real winners.

MAN THER REFS SCREWED US FANS AGAIN!!! TOOK OU TTHE CELTICFLOW! LIKEDONA HUE SAYS FIXED! FIXED! FIXED!!!!

The fix was in as they were afraid of major riots in LA if they lost game & the refs followed the script by putting the C’s in foul trouble before halfway point of 4th qtr. while the Lakers had a foul to give in the last minute yet both teams played the same hit,clutch & grab ball throughout the game. If Rasheed does retire I expect him to file a multimillion dollar lawsuit against the NBA & their Referees for the bets on techs.

WOW Celtics do Suck Bad!!! boston sucks! boston sucks!
i love how peirce makes excuses about what they should of done to stop the Lakers, Shut the hell up!! LOSER!!

The refs gave the Lakers 25 FT’s in the fourth Quarter and they called absolutely nothing on the Lakers hacking and slashing every player they could I had Gashole with no less than 10 over the back calls and he wasn’t hit with one! the handcheck is illegal in the NBA but not when your name is ron artest or Kobe Rapist. I won’t watch next season because all the Lakers have to do to win is make sure Joey Crawfish shows up in three of the games and have home court advantage! I guarentee you if this game were played in Boston and Joey Crawfish pulled the crap he did tonight he wouldn’t have escaped the rath of the Celtic fans!!!!! My biggest concern with his being there is the FT differential he ahs given opposing teams when reffing against the Celtics. I truly hope the federal government invetigates the NBA as they are now without a doubt in my mind a corrupt organization.

Man please stop all these dumb excuses about refs. its over get over it unless your in tight with the commissioner and can maybe do something about it, shut the hell up YOU LOST!!!

to all you fans who say you dont want to watch because you think it is fixed…good, dont f-ing watch. its disgusting how the losing team whines. you got smacked in the 4th because you stood on offense and got murdered on the glass. and Ray Allen and Paul Pierce played terrible. I just dont get how its the refs fault that Ray Allen cant hit wide open 3′s. anyone want to explain that?

What a total disgrace….you stupid referees calling it lopsided in favor of LA in the 4th qtr after letting both teams play the 1st 3 qtrs…..shame on the NBA…..how in the world you gonna give one team 20 extra free throws in an even game like that?? A game 7!!….. Unbelievably poor sense of the moment for the refs…… inexcusable…..Celtics couldn’t get a break…..seemed like every call went the Lakers’ way……shame, shame, shame……refs have to realize this is a game 7 and you can’t call every little touch foul especially after letting em play for most of the game….. horrible!

hey it wasn’t the greatest game for both teams, and the Celtics have nothing to be ashamed of. You Celtic fans should show more class. if your team had won the game i can imagine what you’d be saying. Maybe next year. It was a good long series, and I was entertained. The refs had nothing to do with the win, being that this was a 4 point difference.

hey dumbass Laker fans….you barely eeked out a referee-assissted “win” in 7 games….it was an even series….now go back 2 years and remember the beat-down your team took at the hand of these Celtics……that could easily have been a 5 game series or even a sweep….the Celtics dominated your sorry behinds…..your team won one and we won one, but it is clear we are still the better team….got it??

Hey Penzoil, grow up and be a sportsman.

Mel, the Lakers had 21 free throws (made 16) in the 4th qtr whereas both teams played an equally physical defense….Mel, its a fact the better team was hindered from winning by the lopsided calls……no they were not at their best and the Lakers did a lot of things well, but you can’t convince me the better team won…..”The refs had nothing to do with the win, being that this was a 4 point difference” – Mel that is just silly…if you had said it was a 39 point difference (game 6, 2008 finals) and the refs had nothing to do with it, that would make sense, but a measly 4 pts?? please!….the simple fact is the lopsided refereeing had a lot to do with the final result and that is a doggone SHAME.

eerily similar:

He also worked Game 7 of the 2000 Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Trail Blazers. The Lakers were down by 13 at the start of the fourth quarter when Bavetta went to work. The Lakers outscored Portland 31–13 in the fourth quarter and went on to win the game and the series. It certainly didn’t hurt the Lakers that they got to shoot 37 free throws compared to a paltry 16 for the
Trail Blazers.
TONIGHT LAKERS 37, CELTICS 17 FROM THE LINE,
IN 2000, LAKERS 37, BLAZERS 16! HOLY SHIT!!!

FIXED!

Hey Vic, maybe these dumbass, no-sense-of-the-moment refs oughtta open their eyes and use a little common sense and maybe even have some sense of fairness, THAT would work wonders.

Yeah, PR24 the Lakers are the Champs, congratulations. No seriously, the Lakers are a very good team and are much better than they were 2 years ago, and they earned a lot of respect from me and other Boston fans. Kobe’s single-minded focus is to be admired and Gasol’s all-around game is fabulous, and of cours, Fischer is money, so yes, congratulations. I am just upset that my beloved Celtics came so close with so much adversity this year and if they had played better they would have won despite the refs, but the refs definetly were adverse to the Celtics.

Im feeling for our guys. To have it stolen from them like that… thats gotta hurt.

Lakers are the best,
cuz, we pay the refs good moniessssss,
hehehehe. hey money talks.

the reason why the blogger didnt say refs is because it wasnt the reason the celtics lost. 17 FT attempts in one of the lowest scoring finals in history, the real reason is the celtics gave it away and ron-ron OWNED the paint why cant you celtics wipe the slime away and look at the game more objectively, stop being drunk punks, the celtics being too tech-friendly and aggressive was a major deterrent coupled with the fact you got OUTREBOUNDED, and that defined the entire series! GEt with it idiots! REBOUNDS won MY Lakers the game, and thats that. I also recall you bunch crying in the Magic series games 4,5,6 and those were all EVEN games..

Blaming the refs? What a lame excuse. You Celtics fans really need to learn how to handle a loss, and that’s what it was plain and simple. Penzoil– so the Lakers championship last year doesn’t count because you had a big man out for the year? hmm so did the Lakers in 2008, so maybe your title shouldn’t count. But then again we’ll let you have it and keep obsessing over it while the Lakers continue on with their dynasty and the C’s miss the finals for a decade or more. Nice try Boston, but your team just isn’t as good as the Lakers.

Listen, the lakers had the worst Shot % in recent history the entire series…at 32.5% and they won. Yeah the refs made some bad calls, but those calls should have never mattered. If you play so poorly that a couple bad calls change the game.. well, its time to score some baskets maybe? The Celts, as hard as it is to say, pissed this away. Poor rebounding..its like they hoped the ball would magically float to them. Poor shooting…my god, look at ray allen….some of the worst shooting ever. They missed like have the shots in the paint! I mean 4 ft jumpers and layups! I was praying for the Celts, but they played like they didnt want the win. KG with 3 whole rebounds…I mean come on! They couldnt buy a damned basket and that why they lost.

Those who are crying that the nba is “fixed” then please stop watching the nba right away. Why bother watching? I understand if you’re frustrated that Celtics lost and you scream fix so either stop watching the nba because it’s fake or stop watching the Celtics and other nba games altogether to bankrupt this billion dollar league. Come on and make it happen. Prove David Stern wrong. Man, talk about sore losers.

In Boston they have what is called Celtic’s pride & have won big games with their guts & players. You look at Laker big time wins & you see that they had the help of the Refs with whistle after whistle calling the game different in the all important 4th quarter. A ref gets caught betting on games & the guy he called the most before games was somehow allowed to work all important game 7. That shows how hard David Stern works to make sure he has the best guys calling the game.

Hey Celtics fans. Congratulations on a long season with great success. Your team fought with a lot of heart and never gave up. They have a lot to be proud of for sure. On the subject of refs fixing the game, please stop the sour grapes. I saw the game just like you did, and I saw bodies all over the floor everywhere. The refs let them play as much as they could without it turning into a wrestling match. Yes, there was a differential in fouls, and the Celts had some key ones called on them late in the game. But that wasn’t the result of fixing the game. Instead, the Celts just wore out from being undermanned in a long and physical game and they started hacking when they were having trouble getting rebounds and keeping possession. Wallace had cramps and foul trouble in the 4th quarter, Garnett was gassed out and in foul trouble as well. In the player interviews and in the interviews with Doc Rivers, all they talked about was not having enough energy to close it out. None of them tried to take the low road and claim that it was something out of their control because they played like men, and in the end, they lost like men too. Hopefully, the Celtics fans will let their make an exit with respect by manning up like their team did.

Lakers did not win – the game was handed to them. Once Boston went up by 9 in the 3rd one could see the refs felt LA needed help, so they gave it to them. That is abundantly clear. The disparity of fouls called, the lack of enforcing basic rules (Gasol up and down, rapist dribbles off of his foot, runs to the ball and starts dribbling again), and the total, and I mean total, blindness to LA hacks every time Boston went inside, and giving “just looking” fouls to Boston was the difference. The Lakers alone could not have won this game. The League has a lot to answer for as a result of this obvious handout. Given the odds (8 to 5), the Celtics actually won the game in the eyes of true basketball aficionados outside of LA (not the three monkeys: Brainless Breen, Homer Jackson, and Van Gumby, apologist all). Take away the extra free throws and who won? Boston should have the trophy, but it’s just a meaningless piece of worthless junk now anyway. A hollow feeling must pervade the Lakers organization today. Bittersweet at best, knowing that they didn’t earn a championship but received one as a gift. Unfortunately, it’s non-returnable, which would be the only decent thing to do if they had any pride whatsoever. By the way Statsjockey, you’re right about one thing, “…when push came to shove…” the refs ignored them except when they thought Boston might do some of their own. Might…. not did, might.