LA isn't winning this series, but that is a hell of a win. Might be the first time this season I've really been proud of the team.

Thought that Durant 3 was going in.

Westbrook was screaming at ibaka as they walked off the floor that he didnt get the last shot

Hope this goes 7.

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Refs hand it to LA as expected.

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I hate the Fakers and their refs. Notice how Kobe and Gasol are constantly sucking the refs d!ck$ during timeouts

Lakers

i'm not even going to pretend to get mad over this

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Holy. Jesus. This is ridiculous. Thunder being gift wrapped this game


Lakers only make 10 FGs in the 2nd half.

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are the Lakers sending Joey Crawford to the podium tonight?

Bynum plays worst game in months....lakers still win

let the minions fight it out for 7 games.

let the minions fight it out for 7 games.

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Series is over. It was over after they didnt take game 2. Break out your fishing poles. Thunder in 4

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Dude, Lakers got 40FTs total and several questionable ones at the end when Kobe was laying down enough bricks to build a house. You don't need to shoot well when you're getting that much support from the zebras

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This is how I feel. Thunder are gonna win this series, but I'd prefer they didn't sweep. Grandpa Duncan needs his rest.

OKC fouled every ****ing time down the court. They wanted to be physical, and they were. The Lakers earned those free throws. And they made a hell of a lot more than they usually do.

Espn is cracking me up with these stills of the fouls on kobe. no fouls were called on any of them... Ticky tack calls called elsewhere.

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Espn is cracking me up with these stills of the fouls on kobe.

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REALLY hard to tell from most stills what is and isn't real contact.

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Eh, some of them. The officiating was pretty questionable in the last few minutes. Foul on Harden was BS. LA fouled OKC several times when OKC was trying to rebound on the 3 shot LA possession (no call, I think LA ended up getting FTs too).

It's basketball. You don't expect the refs to get everything right (which is good, because they don't). But when one team gets a few favorable calls at the end, it obviously can screw up the game a lot

To me, this is one of the best things about a series. A few bad calls can't trash things for you like they can in March Madness (Sloan v. UCLA...).

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Yeah but there were at least two phantom calls in okc's favor in the last 5 min. It was a physical game and the refs were calling it tight. OKC has decided to abuse Kobe every time down the court. It's been effective, but it's also likely to get the whistles going.

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Yeah but there were at least two phantom calls in okc's favor in the last 5 min. It was a physical game and the refs were calling it tight. OKC has decided to abuse Kobe every time down the court. It's been effective, but it's also likely to get the whistles going.

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Depends who is reffing. A guy like Joey Crawford is giving everything to the Lakers in a game like that. He is known for calling everything extremely tight anyway. Remember he was reffing the Spurs-Mavs game 1 of the 2003 WCF when he decided that a perfectly good basketball game should become a FT shooting contest.

Brooks on LAL's 41 of 42 FT's: "We committed too many fouls."

Someone else smart gets it.

That game was handed to LA on a silver platter by the officials. Not complaining though. It will extend the series another game or two.

You think Brooks' truly believes that?

LA had to get 40 FTs to squeak a win.

Man that was a horribly officiated game. They treat Durant like Jordan but LA got every damn call down the stretch. The refs were just putting LA on the free throw line so they could win the game. Horrible.

Glad LA got the win though.

thunder put this series away tonight, allowing the spurs to close down basketball at staples for the year

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You are correct. Thunder hammer the lakers tonight and solidify why they are going to win it all

Sorry but they haven't been dominant over a very unimpressive lakers team. Spurs will beat them in 6.

Anyone else TNT HD not work in CS? (suddenlink)

beating a team that denver took the distance isnt exactly a ringing endorsement for a championship type team

lakers might get fifty free throws if these whistles keep blowing

Playoff Kobe in full effizzect.