Have you ever seen a more poorly officiated NBA game?

Thank you Nick Van Exel for standing up and saying enough is enough and getting tossed out of the game. Greg Popovich couldn't take a 2nd technical foul and get tossed, but the team could afford to lose Van Exel.

Dirk Nowitzki picked up his first foul early and the game and it seemed that the officials were determined to not let him get into foul trouble. He committed obvious fouls throughout the first quarter that went uncalled. I counted 4 or 5 that were no-brainers by halftime.

It's the playoffs, and I understand that. But the game needs to be called consistently. The first few minutes, refs blew the whistle when they saw fouls. The next dozen minutes they let them play. The last 6 minutes of the first half,  pretty much every call went the Mav's way.

I've seen Ginobli foul a guy by hitting him on the elbow with his chin. I've seen Brent Barry take a blocking foul when he had been set in position long before a driver jumped into him. I've seen an "inadvertant whistle" that led to a jump ball.  I've seen Tim Duncan get called for a blocking foul when it was Eric Dampier that got run over by his own teammate. I've seen some crazy things in this game.

All I want is to see a game called fairly. I don't care who wins and loses as long as it's called with integrity. The San Antonio fans are classy as hell and this game had them standing up and chanting "ref you suck" on several occassions. That says a lot, because you expect that in many cites, but not San Antonio. The fans there will not call BS unless there is, without question, BS.