No Delaney, no Javie, but two "homers" instead
I'm sure there are some Jazz fans out there who expected referees Steve Javie and Bob Delaney to show up for today's Game 4. They will be relieved to know the NBA has assigned Eddie Rush, Sean Corbin and Joe DeRosa to work the game instead.
Delaney's been very, very tough on the Jazz the last two games he's worked, almost to the point I wondered whether he had something against Jerry Sloan, Deron Williams and Co. Javie was at the center of the controversy in last year's Game 4 against San Antonio.
I've heard Javie referred to (I think by Jeff Van Gundy) as the most favorable ref for the visiting team in the NBA. He's also Kobe Bryant's favorite ref, because as Bryant once said, "You always know where you stand with him." Neither ref will be here, though.
Not sure whether the Rush/Corbin/DeRosa trio is favorable one way or another. The Jazz are 2-3 in games Corbin has called this season, 4-3 with DeRosa and 4-4 with Rush, according to Covers.com.
Actually, according to the site, Corbin and DeRosa are the two best "homer" refs in the NBA this season. Against the spread, home teams are 44-23-0 with Corbin and 47-26-2 with DeRosa. It's only 9:30 a.m., but the Jazz already have caught one break.
--Ross Siler
Delaney's been very, very tough on the Jazz the last two games he's worked, almost to the point I wondered whether he had something against Jerry Sloan, Deron Williams and Co. Javie was at the center of the controversy in last year's Game 4 against San Antonio.
I've heard Javie referred to (I think by Jeff Van Gundy) as the most favorable ref for the visiting team in the NBA. He's also Kobe Bryant's favorite ref, because as Bryant once said, "You always know where you stand with him." Neither ref will be here, though.
Not sure whether the Rush/Corbin/DeRosa trio is favorable one way or another. The Jazz are 2-3 in games Corbin has called this season, 4-3 with DeRosa and 4-4 with Rush, according to Covers.com.
Actually, according to the site, Corbin and DeRosa are the two best "homer" refs in the NBA this season. Against the spread, home teams are 44-23-0 with Corbin and 47-26-2 with DeRosa. It's only 9:30 a.m., but the Jazz already have caught one break.
--Ross Siler
9:36 AM
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1 Comments:
Not to plug another Paper, But TJ Simmers of the AL Times wrote a most excellent piece on this on the 8th.
Referees will do anything to make David Stern smile
http://www.latimes.com/sports/basketball/nba/lakers/la-sp-simers8-2008may08,0,1530531.column?page=2
Coupled with this, well we all sorta get the idea.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/dustinjm19/DavidSternAlmighty.jpg
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