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Tim Duncan gets ejected (worst call of the year?)

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Did anyone else catch this? Duncan didnt appear to say anything at all..he just laughed to himself,that was it, he laughed from the bench and crawford ejected him.

Unless I missed something that others witnessed Crawford's ego should be suspended.
 
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I searched some non-spurs message boards to get some unbiased views on it, since I just caught the end of it.

"Hilarious. Duncan laughs on the bench after getting called for a foul, gets a T. Then Howard gets a call on the Mavs that Duncan doesn't agree with and he sarcastically puts a towel over his head and laughs and Crawford ejects him from like halfcourt. Never said a word."
 
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Crawford was on a power trip.

I couldn't believe what I had seen. He definitely didn't say a word on the second T. Duncan seems to be one of the classier guys in the NBA. He definitely did not deserve to be ejected.


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Crawford hit Duncan with two technical fouls just 1:16 apart late in the third quarter of San Antonio's 91-86 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. The second came while he was laughing on the bench and meant an automatic ejection, just the second of his nine-year career.

"He looked at me and said, 'Do you want to fight? Do you want to fight?"' Duncan said. "If he wants to fight, we can fight. I don't have any problem with him, but we can do it if he wants to. I have no reason why in the middle of a game he would yell at me, 'Do you want to fight?"'
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I watched this happen. What was funny was that right as this was going down, the announcers were saying how Crawford's one of the best officials in the league. Then he kicks Duncan out, and the announcers are like, "He's good, but WTF?"
 
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Refresh my memory...I know Crawford's one of the refs that had tax trouble a few years back, but is he also the one that had to go to anger management classes?
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In 1998, Joe was one of 10 NBA referees charged with filing false income tax returns. An Internal Revenue Service investigation was the result of cash being pocketed by referees when airline tickets provided by the league were downgraded. At the conclusion of a four year investigation, Crawford pleaded guilty on July 1, 1998 for falsely stating income of $82,500 from 1991 to 1993 and resigned from the NBA effective immediately. He would be reinstated by NBA commissioner David Stern in 1999 and did not miss a game due to a players' lockout to start the 1998-99 NBA season.
  • During the 2003 NBA playoffs, Joe assessed two technical fouls and ejected Don Nelson, then head coach of the Dallas Mavericks, for not returning to his team's bench after disputing a foul called against his team. After discussing the incident with the league, Crawford determined that he should have waited longer and let Nelson become the aggressor, not him.
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sheesh. was the theme for the game "amateur night"? not only was the call on duncan absolutely pitiful, but the call on oberto wasn't much better. okay, it was actually a lot better, but that only speaks to how absurd the call on duncan was.

i know it will never be done, but i'd love to see officials made available for the postgame pressers.
 
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