Nick Wright

There were not many, if any.

Knicks fouls that were called that weren't fouls.

The reason the Spurs were in the bonus immediately because the Knicks were fouling.

The reason the Knicks were fouling was because they weren't as good defensively as they had been throughout the series.

So I just think the Mike Brown got it going and then this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy in consumption of modern sports media, especially if you consume it via Twitter.

Because if you wake up this morning and you watch the Mike Brown press conference where he's talking about the officiating, the algorithm then knows, oh, everyone who watches this is tweeting about officiating.

The refs, the word ref or foul or official is in their reply tweets.

So then when you're scrolling Twitter, you're like, holy shit, everyone's talking about the officiating and it becomes...

it becomes the story because a spark was lit by Mike Brown's comments it turned into a forest fire by the algorithm and then up you know I'm leading the pod with it it's a very you know

weird way to consume sports media or that the way sports media honestly is created these days.

And so maybe I'm part of the problem.

I don't know, but that is what I'm seeing.

So I don't, the officiating was awful in game two, awful.

And had the Knicks lost that game, if I were a Knicks fan, I would have been beside myself.

Game three, the Knicks did not play well.

So that's the first thing I think people have wrong.

Here's the second thing I think people have wrong, Namonze.

I think people are panicked way too much about what the Spurs avoiding a sweep means for the series.

I think the Knicks are totally fine.

And I think the fact that there is this level of... The fact that there is seemingly...