Joey Crawford will carry his grudge of Tim Duncan and the Spurs to his grave. Unfortunately for the Spurs, his grudge just cost them the NBA finals.

This was a great game that went back and forth until the Lakers took a 7 point lead with minutes left in the fourth quarter. When the Spurs closed the game to being down by two with 2 seconds left and the ball.

Then it happened.

Popovich drew-up the call. Brent Barry got the inbound, the play did not run as planned, Barry improvised 5 feet from the 3-point line when Derek Fisher jumped with both feet into the air and landed on Barry's back as he launched a long shot after the obvious contact from Fisher.

The clock ran out and no whistle. No whistle from the Spurs nemesis, Joey Crawford.

As ESPN's, Stephen A. Smith has said in the past about Crawford, "Joey Crawford is an elephant in this business.....he has a very lonnngggg memory".

I will say this about Joey Crawford, if he is going to not make foul calls at least be consistent about it. And he was throughout the game.

When asked by TNT's Craig Sager about what has accounted for the Laker's lack of performance going into halftime, Phil Jackson said, "You want me to be honest with you? The guys with the whistles."

However, the Spurs, unlike myself, are men without excuses.

"That's not going to get called in the Western Conference finals," Barry said. "Maybe in the regular season. But that call shouldn't be called in the Western Conference finals."

"It wasn't a foul," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said. "... I think it was a proper no-call from what I saw."

But like many of you who watched the game, we all saw what we saw....and so did Joey Crawford's favorite player:

"You're not going to get that call. They're not going to make that call."
- Tim Duncan