[kwyjibo]

You all are concentrating on the WRONG bad call(s). I thought the non-call on Kobe's forearm was correct. The swim-move is used all the time. Bibby was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Kind of like the Simpson's episode where Homer grabs a pie and tells it that he's gonna chomp his jaws and if the pie happens to get in the way and get eaten that it's the pie's fault. But I digress...

Shaq changes his pivot foot two or three times each time he moves to the hoop. Never gets called for travelling. Plus, anytime Kobe goes up for a layup or dunk, a whistle is automatically blown if a defender is within five feet of him.

But they weren't the only two players getting the calls tonight. Webber almost tore Horry's arm off right before Divac fouled out (on a terrible call, IMO) and the whistle wasn't blown.

The Lakers will get the majority of the calls in this series because they have two "golden" players (Shaq and Kobe) to the Kings' one (Webber). Eventually Bibby will become one of the chosen ones, but not this year.

Hopefully more people will join Mark Cuban in his crusade for refereeing accountability. But despite the refs, this series should already have ended. No way the Kings should have lost game 4. If they lose, it's their own fault.

[staytrue]

Bibby was in the wrong place at the wrong time

I disagree completely. NBA guards and Kobe in particular is graceful and have great body control. They can judge a shot blocker's jump and reach down to one or two millimeters. This elbow was intentional. The only time you can get an inadvertent elbow is during a scrap for a loose ball or in a rebounding situation where the clumsy 7 foot thugs are battling it out.