Eastern Conference Playoffs and the Dirty Heat

Dear NBA and the Miami Heat,

We the fans, with the exception of some Miami bandwagoners, want this to stop. Pittman needs to sit out the rest of the playoffs and part of the next season without pay. What he did was assault and pure thuggery not basketball. Udonis Haslem needs to spend the rest of the series on the bench as well. You cannot retaliate. Hansbrough's foul though hard was clearly unintentional. He was actually going for the ball. This isn't the mafia. You (I'm talking to you Lebron and Wade) can't call a hit out on someone because you feel slighted.
NBA, your refs needs to do the job they're supposed to do and not the one that you tell them to. Their job is to make honest and unbiased calls to ensure the safety of both player and fan and maintain the integrity of the game. Their job is not to call fouls as the TV ratings dictate. Is an Miami/Boston Eastern Conference Finals a lot sexier and a lot more lucrative than an Indiana/Boston ECF? Of course, but it does not matter. You need to suspend both of them and you should have suspended Dwayne Wade for this little gem. You will lose fans this way. Do fans watch for the stars? of course, but we also watch for the competition and definitely not for this.
Okay, I'll stop. I don't want to, but I will. Watching that type of "basketball" just pisses me off. I hope the Pacers let Lebron and Wade know that kind of crap is unacceptable if the NBA doesn't have the stones to.

The unfortunate nature of fouls like that is that it completely detracts from some fantastic basketball. I should be talking about two Eastern Conference semi-finals that are 3-2, not the pathetic acts of a few. Unfortunately after watching Monday night's Boston/Philly beat down and Tuesday night's Miami/Indiana whipping (with a bit of assistance from the refs) these series seem all but done. I still think that Indiana has a better chance than Philly to actually force this to a game 7 if they actually play their game (passing it to Hibbert) and let Miami know they're not going to be pushed around. Mmm... a good hard foul on Wade would make me happy.  Sorry, but yeah Philly looks cooked. Not that Brandon Bass is going to light them up again, Ray Allen is going to shoot so terribly either. Neither the talent not the experience is there. Tonight should send the Celtics easily to the ECF.

The Miami/Indiana series has the potential to keep going it all just depends on who shows up tonight: the
 jump shooting/ soft Indiana jokes or the pound it inside Indiana Eastern Conference contenders. I hope it is the contenders. I would love to see Miami get pounded and force this to 7 games. As for a prediction, I can't say I have to high of hopes for the Pacers after all, they are still the Pacers. Who is the leader on that team? Granger? If he is he is the wrong type of leader. he loves to shoot jump shots and that's not what they need to beat the Heat unless they catch lightning in a bottle. So I would assume the Heat finish the Pacers off Thursday even if it is begrudgingly. Come on Pacers!

As for the Eastern Conference Finals, Boston/Miami should be pretty crazy. Though, I am not a fan of KG (Kevin Garnett [He talks too much trash and is too dirty for my liking]) it's nice to know that if Miami's thugs decide to "get big" against the Celtics KG will let them know that it's not happening. I actually hope KG does talk some trash specifically aimed at "choking" Lebron and Juwan Howard (I would hope for Dexter Pittman because that would be even more entertaining, but he had better be suspended) comes to talk to him about it. That would be quality television. We'll look more into this if it actually happens.