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2 Pros and a Cup of Joe

Best of Outkick the Coverage 06/01/2018

2 Pros and a Cup of Joe

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News, Sports, Sports News, Football

4.63.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Clay Travis breaks down JR Smith's late game screw up that caused the Cavs Game 1, and an appearance from NBA player Brandan Wright

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0:00.0

This is the best of outkick the coverage with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio.

0:07.0

A lot of you are awfully tired this morning as you start your day or finish your day as the case may be across the entirety of the country.

0:18.0

What a game we saw last night. There was so much to unpack down the stretch that it's almost hard to keep track of what went down exactly.

0:28.0

Let's work our way through all of the controversies embedded in the final couple of minutes of the game.

0:36.0

We'll play you some audio clips from all of this.

0:40.0

To me, let's start with the situation where Kevin Durant's going to the basket.

0:47.0

There's 40 seconds left in the game.

0:51.0

So at that point, LeBron James has scored, has gotten the three point play and the Cleveland Cavaliers are up two points.

1:02.0

I believe I'm correct in all that. There are 40 seconds remaining in the game when Kevin Durant goes to the basket and LeBron James attempts to draw a charge.

1:13.0

If you go back and watch this play in slow motion or just multiple times, what you will see is something interesting that has not been very much discussed, which is it seems clear to me that the two officials on the floor have two different charges calls that they are planning to make simultaneously.

1:34.0

They look at each other and the referee on the baseline takes command of the situation and calls a charge on Kevin Durant.

1:43.0

But if you slow this down, you will see the official that LeBron James is looking at when he is on the ground, go directly to both of his hands on his hips as if he is going to call a block.

1:59.0

And then the official on the baseline looks at him and he stops and doesn't end up completing his official call and then we get the charge from the other end of the court.

2:10.0

And in fact, when you look at LeBron James, you can see him reacting to what he sees is going to be a block charge before he realizes the official behind him has called it a charge.

2:22.0

This is for officials out there, a one of these awful situations that sometimes happens in Bang Bang plays where you end up with what's called a large a block and a charge simultaneous and one of those calls has to end up taking precedence.

2:39.0

Now what they ended up doing was they went to the monitor to review whether LeBron James was in the restricted area, but I think what they also ended up doing and clearly they did and since 2012, 13, they've had the ability to do this was inside of two minutes if they get a call wrong, even if it's a judgment call, then they have the ability to go back and change it.

3:02.0

And I think they got the call right here. We spend a lot of time criticizing officials for not being willing to change calls for getting calls wrong. I think when you watch that play over and over again, LeBron James was guilty of a block.

3:18.0

He was not set. He was sideways in slow motion. The call was correct. It was a block, not a charge. So I think the NBA officials actually got this wrong for people out there who believe that the NBA is fixed.

3:34.0

If that's the argument you want to roll with, this is the worst decision the NBA could have made to benefit the league. The NBA and ESPN and ABC and everybody else out there once this series to go as many games as it possibly can because that's where they're unlocking more value out of this series.

3:56.0

Most of the money in any series is made on game six and seven. If it goes five games or less, the television partner tends to lose money. That's especially the case in the NBA where based on what ESPN is paying for this thing, they may lose money no matter what.

4:14.0

So if you really believe that the fix was in or you're out there and you're like these officials were trying to change the outcome of the game. If the officials wanted to put the fix in the way to go was in favor of Cleveland because Cleveland winning game one would have changed the narrative of this series and helped probably probably to guarantee that there would be at least six games.

4:39.0

Yes, the warrior still could have won for straight, including both in Cleveland, but the odds of that happening would have been relatively low. The odds of that happening would have still been unlikely, whereas now I think there's a possibility to Cleveland Cavaliers collapse going forward.

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