In NBA playoff games, and perhaps in regular season games as well, the home team gets the benefit of the doubt on foul calls.
That was clearly demonstrated in yesterday's Jazz-Lakers game when the Lakers' Luke Walton was fouled by the Jazz's Ronnie Price while attempting a lay up. TV broadcaster Mike Tirico called it a great block of Walton's shot attempt by a little guy who had earlier been injured in a collision with the Lakers' Rony Turiaf (ruled a flagrant foul on Turiaf.) But Price blocked not only the ball but Walton's body as well, knocking Walton on his wallet under the basket. (If Walton had not been knocked down, he could have rebounded the blocked shot and scored.) The referees failed to make a call on the play.
The Lakers-Jazz series is even now with each team winning both their home games. The Spurs-Hornet series is similar. Favorable home-team foul calls have made it that way.
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