The Pacers closed last night’s game on a 16-6 run to pull away from the Heat for a 99-92 victory — the Eastern Conference finals are tied at 2. Of course there is some controversy.
LeBron James fouled out (with less than a minute in the 4th quarter) – it has happened twice since he joined the Heat, five times in his entire NBA career. So what happened & what does LBJ think about it?! Check it out & weigh in…
Via Kurt Helin at PBT:
With :56 seconds left in Game 4 Tuesday night, LeBron was called for a moving screen on Lance Stephenson. That was No. 6. Much to the delight of the vocal Indiana crowd LeBron went to the bench. It’s not likely his presence would have changed the outcome of this game, but without him and a clearly slowed Dwyane Wade running the show it was pretty much a lock the Pacers would win.
On a night where the one universal cry was that the officials were missing things both ways, you can add LeBron to the group. He didn’t think four of the fouls he got called for deserved a whistle, particularly the last one.
“I was going to set a screen and I felt like I was stationary — and D Wade rejected the pick and roll,” LeBron said in his televised postgame press conference. “Lance actually ran into me….
“I believe I was straight up and down on Paul George’s drive, on the and-1. They reversed a call with (Roy) Hibbert, called a foul on me on that one. And at the end of the third they called a push off on David West
“It was a couple of calls that I didn’t feel like were fouls, personal fouls on me. That’s how the game goes sometimes.”
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