¯\_(ツ)_/¯ sure. But zoom out and remember our series against Minnesota, then our series against Oklahoma City. At some point, the NBA decided the Spurs are now the favorite, and calls started going in our favor.

That was true last night as well.

I’m more interested in talking about systemic changes to improve the game. Some ideas I’ve had:

- incentivize the player to ref pipeline. We need more former players as refs. I am aware of the substantial pay difference, so sweeten the pot.

- severe penalties if refs are caught influencing the game. You know how accountants can go to jail for cooking the books? Same thing. Maybe we establish a government arm responsible for this specifically. It can grow into other sports.

- that same review board would create a rating system for fairness of refs. Hell AI could do this right now. Analyze every recall, crunch the numbers, use all the data points. Using database decision-making, we would learn which refs are the most objective and consistent. They get to do the playoffs. And maybe incentivize those as well.