Ummmm Tim clearly called out 2 obvious fouls where James was favored.
James just destroyed Terry like a safety hitting a slot coming across the middle. JVG would have to be a complete dumbass to feel like it was an offensive foul.
James bulldozed Barea and got away with it.
It's pretty obvious that Miami got away with a lot of calls. Is the NBA behind it? I'm not sure. We'll find out more come game 3 and 4.
But I think it was pretty obvious that the refs were giving star treatment and got carried away with the home crowd on a number of the plays in games 1 and 2.
Personally, the #1 problem between this NBA/refs/controversy thing is the lack of accountability. In the NFL, refs are held accountable publicly. In the NBA, no one knows. If Stern came out and said that Danny Crawford made a horrible call and would be suspended for the next 5 games, then all this controversy nonsense (and so many favorable super star calls) would take a huge hit.
1) he said "borderline flagrant" which seems reasonable. It could have been a flagrant, it was close
2) I have heard some experts state that bigger people are MORE likely to be called for a flagrant, so your argument that Lebron should get a pass because of his size doesn't hold water.
3) It did look an offensive foul against Barea. If Barea flopped for no reason, that would be different,
All of Tim's arguments are valid. His main point is correct, that Van Gundy in these examples was applying a different standard to Lebron than to the Mavs players. Now if you were to say that this was just one example, you would be correct. This could have been just a coincidence. My opinion is that nearly all NBA sports play by play announcers will tend to be biased in favor of the star players more often than not. The reasons for this are debatable.