I agree with you. Having seen many many many games it was nothing out of the ordinary. Of course the complainer was a spanish fan so he had blinders on. :)

First off, this is the play. I still can't put clips up to YouTube and embed here because the IOC ain't playing any games.

http://www.aromascatering.net/apg/Sp...ron%20Foul.mp4

Second, really?! :confused:

I'm not usually harsh, but that might be the stupidest/whackiest "judgement", from what I'm presuming to be a fan, I've heard in a while. We've talked about the UNS foul earlier in the thread and that play is infintely more debatable than trying to make this play a disqualifying/flagrant foul/flagrant two/flagrant foul penalty two.

I wouldn't expect a first year official to try and twist that play into a ejectionable offense. It is plain as day to everyone that LeBron was attempting to steal the ball and there was no attempt to injure. This is a common basketball play (swiping to steal the ball) that happens often enough that sometimes, when a foul occurs, a player will be inadvertently hit in the face. If one was to upgrade the foul, it would have to be PLAIN AS DAY, to everyone in attendance.

Just a regular personal foul.

Seems to me that the cross body blocks thrown out by Rudy Fernandez and Navarro (I think) in the 4th quarter - trying to stop potential USA fast breaks - come way closer to the INT, Unsporting, FF1 category than LeBron's foul.

I agree with APG. This was just a regular, normal foul.

Peace

Agreed, they were a lot closer.