PISTONS OWNER BILL DAVIDSON SAYS REFS ARE CROOKED

Hey, if I was about to go into the Basketball Hall of Fame, I’d take some pot shots at the NBA too.

Some excerpts….

On refs

Well, I look for certain things, which are mainly fouls … and, unfortunately, the referees are not what they should be — although they’re getting better. So I watch the referees. I watch who they are. There are certain referees — when they come to our game — you know you’re gonna lose. And that should never be.

~Bill Davidson

On the 1988 NBA Finals…

Well, the worst loss was out in L.A. (in 1988) when I was in the room with David Stern getting ready to accept the trophy, and they call a foul on Bill Laimbeer against Kareem. Bill pulled down a clean rebound, and Hugh Evans calls a foul. You know that he was set up, and you know … I don’t say he had a bet on the game, but that was … that was unconscionable! And that cost us a championship, which we should have had. Which we had.

~Bill Davidson

Finally, somebody brings up that stupid phantom foul on Bill Laimbeer. The worst call in NBA history. No other call directly effected a championship more than that.

I’ll admit, as an eight year old, I cried when the Pistons lost. Yea, go ahead, call me a baby.

But that championship was stolen.

They were stealers. You will never convince me otherwise.

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