Playoff Awards: Second Edition

Tweet Enough time has passed since part one of this award gimmick (part two would have been up sooner, but life and summer got in the way), meaning that its time to hand out some more awards! You will notice one glaring omission, but don't worry, I will explain myself at the end. Without further delay, on to the awards!

I always defend like this!

'The Dick Bavetta Award' - Usually reserved for the single, worst ref in these playoffs, this year however, every NBA ref gets it, a team effort baby! So why is it a team award? Let's run through a checklist: Inconsistent calls? Check. Bad calls? Check. Calls where multiple players start laughing in disbelief? Check. Really bad interpretations of flagrant fouls and technical fouls? Check (we are not done talking about those yet). It amazes me that we are in the year 2012, and the NBA doesn't even have an idea to improve officiating (ignoring the problem does not help anyone in the long run). Hopefully, this will become a non-issue, but I doubt it.