The NBA Finals: There will be fouls

One hundred and thirty four. That is how many free throws we’ve gotten to witness through the first two games of the NBA finals. That is 67 free throws a game. The league average was about 48 a game during the regular season. That is a 71 percent increase in foul calls for the NBA finals. [Pro Basketball Talk]

Kurt Helin has an excellent breakdown of the countless foul calls that we have seen through the first two games of the NBA Finals.

No, your eyes haven’t been deceiving you. These are two teams that like to go at each other and play physical yet the refs haven’t really let them. I don’t think the officiating has necessarily been bad but just a little bit tight. It becomes frustrating when on the biggest stage of the year that we have to see the best players on the court plagued with foul trouble.

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Hot rumor of the day: Jamie Bell as the next Spiderman

There’s been a lot of heated discussion lately as to who should don the webby red and blue. Not surprisingly, Sony wasn’t really paying attention to any of it, and stuck with their final five candidates. While Drew McWeeny at HitFix heard Josh Hutcherson was very, very close to becoming the new Peter Parker, Bleeding Cool reports that Sony and Marc Webb have settled on Jamie Bell. [Cinematical]

Cinematical also reports that Sony has no comment on the story. Not exactly a denial. Stay tuned.

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