In 2007, Crawford's whistle caused a huge controversy. At the time, the league was implementing zero-tolerance rules, and during a game between the Spurs and Mavericks, Crawford ejected Duncan for insulting himself as he sat on the bench and laughed.

This scene became a classic of the NBA's black whistle.

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."

In Game 4 of the 2008 Western Conference Finals, the Lakers visited the Spurs. In the final moments of the game, Lakers player Fisher violated a shot by former Spurs and Rockets player Brent Barry.

If Crawford blew the whistle at that time, then Barry would have killed the Lakers with free throws, but Crawford, as the referee closest to the incident at the time, chose to ignore it, and in the end, the Lakers relied on Crawford's help to eliminate the Spurs 4-1. Afterwards, the NBA also apologized for the incident.

In Game 2 of the first round of the 2009 playoffs against the Trail Blazers, the Rockets trailed by two points with 1.3 seconds left to play. The Trail Blazers' Fernandez fell to the ground while receiving a teammate's throw-in serve, and Crawford's whistle blew. But through slow-motion replays, none of the Rockets team members made contact with the Spaniard at all. This penalty also ultimately led to the Rockets' loss in the second game on the road.

Because Crawford's bald head often blows powerful penalties to Kobe and the Lakers, he is also known as Kobe's royal referee.

In the sixth game, the referee was this bald head, and Qin Yang felt very bad.

The first ball.

Howard jumped up and tossed the ball to Qin Yang, but the next moment, Kobe Bryant rushed up directly, slapped Qin Yang's arm, and then cut the ball away.

“four！”

Qin Yang immediately turned around and shouted, the referee didn't pay attention to Qin Yang at all.

This Nima!

The foul is so obvious that he didn't blow the whistle, and the referee was too blatant.

On the first ball, Qin Yang had a black line.

Taking a step slower, Bryant rushed straight to the basket and ended the battle with an easy dunk. Qin Yang turned around and spoke to Crawford: "Sir, this is a foul, a clear and unmistakable foul. ”

"I know what to do, so I'll go back now."

Crawford's tone was very strict, and he had the intention of driving Qin Yang out without saying a word.

Qin Yang confessed.

Crawford really dared to do that. If Qin Yang is gone, the next two games will definitely be lost by the Magic, and the championship will be the Lakers.

The game continues.

The Magic team attacked, Rashad Lewis covered, Qin Yang pulled the ball to the right side, crossed over under the crotch, Kobe Bryant switched to defend Qin Yang, and defended directly closely.

Qin Yang half-turned, accelerated the breakthrough, and then stopped and retreated.

Kobe Bryant stepped forward directly and squeezed Qin Yang.

This time Kobe Bryant was very hard, the strength of the defense was simply amazing, Qin Yang was forcibly squeezed away, and the rhythm of the breakthrough was completely disrupted, and he could only pass to Rashad Lewis, who had a high combat power, and after taking the ball, he gave it to Barnes who was running, Barnes made a layup and hit the iron, and Howard scored a basket.

The Magic scored too hard.

The Lakers attacked, Kobe Bryant took the ball and then dropped the ball to Pau Gasol, Gasol held the ball and stood high, Kobe ran without the ball, ran out of half a position, and made a layup after receiving Gasol's pass.

Barnes followed, squeezing with his body.

In the playoffs, the confrontation is very strong.

Strictly speaking, Barnes' confrontation this time was not as strong as Kobe's last round, but after Bryant scored a layup, the whistle blew.

2+1！

Barnes was directly confused and ran to the referee to appeal.

It was a very clean defence, except for a bit of intensity.

However, the referee was not polite to Barnes, and directly gave Barnes a T, Nima, and instantly Barnes was stunned, and Qin Yang hurriedly pulled Barnes aside.

If it goes on like this, this game doesn't have to be played.

Playing a 2+1, the ball is still with the Lakers, and this time the foul is too embarrassing.

Even at the Lakers' home court, not many fans cheered.

"Matt, keep being tough, if you really can't do it, foul it, don't care about the referee, if you leave the court with six fouls, I'll defend Kobe."

Qin Yang said bluntly.

Barnes nodded, no longer hesitating.

The game continued, but an embarrassing scene appeared, in the first quarter, Barnes got four fouls, and Bryant still scored 18 points with a 2-of-0 three-pointer.

With 18 points in the first quarter of the playoffs, Kobe Bryant's scoring ability is too strong.

But the whistle is too obvious.

The Magic trailed in the first quarter.

Rashad Lewis and Qin Yang played well, and Howard played well, but the Lakers performed better, especially Kobe Bryant directly let Howard get 2 fouls and Barnes got 3 fouls, so Kobe Bryant made 8 of 11 free throws in a single quarter, which was almost against the sky.

In the second quarter, Qin Yang did not play.

The game goes on.

Kobe Bryant is still playing, this time Kobe is still bravely attacking the inside, and as long as Kobe Bryant enters the inside, eighty percent can score, otherwise he can get free throws.

Howard went off the court at the five-minute mark of the second quarter and had already picked up four fouls.

That's a bit of a high number of fouls.

"Temat, there's something wrong with this whistle."

Howard said very depressedly, and several whistles that could be judged or not were given to Kobe Bryant, which made Howard very embarrassed.

There were four fouls, and Howard definitely had to watch out for fouls in the second half.

Howard went off the court, and Kobe Bryant also rested, but at this time, the Lakers did not take the opportunity to open the score, and Vince Carter was stable at this time and led the Magic team to stabilize the point difference.

At the end of the first half, the Magic led by 12 points.

At halftime, Qin Yang didn't say anything, and Coach Van Gundy continued to arrange tactics.

On the commentary seat.

Charles Barkley grinned:

"I think Kobe Bryant played very well in this game, surprisingly good, very impressive."

"I think so too, it's just that I hope other people don't steal the show, this stage is for NBA players." Kenny Smith echoed with a smile.

Neither of them sprayed, but the first half was very embarrassing, and Kobe's whistle was a little obvious.

It's understandable that superstars have special treatment in the league, but it's a bit awkward to have the whistle so obvious.

And on the Chinese webcast, Kemi and Kehei have begun to spray each other:

"The naked black whistle, it's too obvious, is the league going to report the Lakers to win the championship?"

"Black whistle, you are paralyzed, volute this is a real force, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand."

"Not only are you blind, but you also have a problem with your IQ, does this black whistle need to say more?"