NBA2000 - Game 6 of the 2001 Finals will be moved to the Staples Center, the home of the Lakers. However, since the fifth game is followed by a weekend, it will be two days before the next game will be played.

However, things off the field continue to ferment.

The first is about the referees helping the Lakers in the last game. This caused dissatisfaction among other teams, especially the Philadelphia 76ers, who directly sued the league with a complaint. Originally, the league didn't want to care about these things, especially the referee's matter, which was always solved by prevarication, but this matter was too big!

O'Neal's foul was very obvious, but the referee didn't blow it, which in itself was a mistake, and the subsequent decision was not biased in favor of the 76ers, which created an "imbalance", which violated the referees' code. So the league had to punish them, ban them and fines, and attach some strong clauses against the 76ers, which finally calmed the anger of the 76ers.

Big Ben's ban is gone, but he was still fined $20,000, but that's not a big deal for Big Ben.

But there is one more thing, and that is Luke's remarks. Luke's "There was something wrong with that decision! "It's in the headlines of the major newspapers, which makes the league very unhappy, the league has always liked players to comment on the referees' faults, and this time Luke broke the ring!

In view of this situation, David Stern decisively gave his own order to identify the three referees for the next match. Dick? Bavita, bald referee Joe? Crawford, as well as Donaghi.

These three are very obedient referees. It made it easier for David Stern to control the direction of the game.

And David Stern gave them an order, regular time, the penalty is biased in favor of the 76ers, and the penalty in the critical moment of the fourth quarter is biased in favor of the Lakers, for Luke, watch it tighter! In this way, it goes without saying it explicitly, everyone knows what David Stern thinks.

However, this was a private statement, so I didn't say it in public, but just told the referees quietly.

The match was held as scheduled.

Luke was shocked when he saw the three referees.

These three referees are quite famous!

Dick? Bavita has been an NBA referee since 1975. Bavita never missed a single game assigned to him by the NBA.

The 1,192-game streak held by "Iron Man" A.C. Green has left many staggering. And Bavita is far more resilient than Green, and his consecutive officiating games are already unmatched. But many people don't know that behind this legend, Bavita has paid countless sweats. Even blood. He struggled for 13 years to become an NBA referee. He almost ended his record because of two beatings. Especially the second time. In the late '90s, in the game between the Pacers and the Knicks, Jalen? Rose and Ewing have a dispute. Rose threw a hard punch, but unexpectedly hit Bavita in the face and broke his nose. "It's like a pancake," Bavita said of his nose. His injuries were severe. The Knicks' team doctor initially advised Bavita to give up a game two days later, but Bavita didn't want to give up. He had surgery the next day and made it to that race. As Bavita walked into the court from the passageway, the staff at the scoring desk put on a respirator and imitated Bavita as a sign of respect for him. In addition to injuries, the weather often makes Bavita difficult. At one point, he was going from Milwaukee to Detroit, but due to a snowstorm, the plane could not take off, so Bavita had to drive to Detroit by himself. In the 2004-05 season, Bavita was hit by another snowstorm when he was traveling from Toronto to Cleveland, but his plane could not take off, and Bavita had to drive to Cleveland by himself, and his creature continued.

Joe? Crawford, full name Joseph? Joey? Crawford, born on August 30, 1951, officially became an NBA referee in 1977 and has been engaged in the refereeing profession for more than 30 years. Crawford is an NBA Golden Whistle figure, and he holds the NBA referee's record for officiating the playoffs and the Finals. The Crawford family is also a family of referees, and his father and brother are both MLB (Major League Baseball) referees. Crawford, who wears the number 17, has always been known for his "unforgiving mouth". In the 2003 playoffs, Crawford blew four technical fouls in 10 minutes, which directly led to Mavericks head coach Don Bush. Nelson was ejected. And Nelson was penalized only because he didn't follow Crawford's orders and sat obediently on the bench. Crawford then moved the Mavericks' then-assistant coach, former Lakers and former Chinese national team coach Del? Harris is ejected.

And he's one of the most bizarre referees. Remember Duncan's laughter? In 2007, during a game between the Spurs and Mavericks, Crawford ejected Duncan for insulting himself because he was sitting on the bench and laughing. After the incident, NBA executives investigated the matter and decided to suspend Crawford indefinitely, and Crawford missed the 2007 playoffs and Finals. Stern's assessment of Crawford was that he "lost the judgment he should have as an NBA referee."

However, it cannot be denied that he is a good referee.

Then came Donaghi. Compared to the previous two, Donaghy is not very conspicuous. But his status is still good. First of all, he was born into a family of basketball referees, and his father was a referee in the high school league and college league, which planted the seeds for his basketball refereeing career. However, like all basketball referees, he finally became an NBA referee in 1994 after his unremitting efforts. After years of experience in the league, he finally understands how to be a good referee, what a senior referee should do. Now, he's also a well-known whistle in the NBA.

However, this is only the statement of these three people on the surface. There are deeper ones.

Bavita stands for "Chief's Will".

Towards the end of the 2004 regular season, Bavita was drawn to the final game of the Nugget -- away against the Spurs. At the time, the league seemed to mean to keep the Nuggets in the playoffs because they had suffered miscalculations before. But the Spurs were the toughest team in the league at that time, and they were at home. But before the game, Bavita said that he had to make sure the nuggets won. "How is this done?" One of the referees asked. "Don't worry, I'll let Duncan get three fouls five minutes into the game, and then he'll just stay on the bench." Bavita said calmly.

But on the day of the game, a new situation arose: the Nuggets finally secured the playoffs ahead of schedule, but the Spurs needed a win to win the division, so Bavita's rhetoric changed again: "The Spurs must win today!" In the end, Spurs won by 26 points.

Why is this happening? Because Bavita is the most gambling referee in the league, he participates in gambling in every game of enforcement. Jordan once said to a fellow referee: "The whole league knows that Bavita is betting and the only thing we hope for is that he is betting on our side today." In addition, Bavita is the most obedient to the league, and when the Kings led 3-2 in Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals, when the referees knew that he was blowing, they understood that Bavita would definitely make the series enter Game 7 for the sake of the TV, for the sake of the league, and for the interests of the big market teams. So that would be the game in which the Lakers made 27 free throws in the fourth quarter and eventually won the game. But Stern said there was absolutely no such thing, and Bavita was innocent.

Then there's Joe Crawford, compared to Dick above? For Bavita, Joe Crawford doesn't have as many things as him, he is one of the most upright referees, he doesn't gamble, and he is famous for his "unforgiving mouth", no one can mess with him, and if he encounters something he is not used to, he will not hesitate to blow a foul directly. However, he is also a mortal and has his own weaknesses. But this weakness is a good thing for the 76ers.

Joe Crawford takes good care of Allen. Especially on the field.

This is something that almost all referees know. Because he has a grandson who admires Allen, someone has seen Crawford take his grandson down from the stands during the team's warm-up, making him look like Allen's superstardom. Aaron and Crawford's grandson were shaking hands, smiling, and talking. If Joe Crawford is on the court, the 76ers will have a better chance of winning.

Finally, there's Donaghi. (To be continued......)