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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In this exclusive video NBA players like Grant Hill, Derek Fisher and Carmelo Anthony talk about who would they want to see in the White House, Barack Obama or John McCain. We also hang out with Sacramento's Spencer Hawes, one of the biggest political enthusiasts in the NBA. Hawes, who is originally from Seattle, tells us how he became a Republican and why he won't watch CNN.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive video reporting to FanHouse. Check back regularly for more videos.

In this exclusive video NBA players like Grant Hill, Derek Fisher and Carmelo Anthony talk about who would they want to see in the White House, Barack Obama or John McCain. We also hang out with Sacramento's Spencer Hawes, one of the biggest political enthusiasts in the NBA. Hawes, who is originally from Seattle, tells us how he became a Republican and why he won't watch CNN.

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Elie Seckbach, the Embedded NBA Correspondent, brings his exclusive NBA reporting to FanHouse. Check back here regularly for more videos.

In this video we talk to Football great Michael Strahan as well as Entertainers about the NBA finals. Around 2:20 into the video we find out from Marcellus Wiley who is cooler, NFL players or NBA players.


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An NBA spokesman, commenting on the play involving Brent Barry and Derek Fisher at the end of Game 4 between the Lakers and Spurs, stated that, "With the benefit of instant replay, it appears a foul should have been called." While that might make some astute (if admittedly petty) observers of the game happy, I think it sets a bad precedent and will only create more controversy for a league that already has so many of its foul calls questioned on a nightly basis.

If we're going to look at a call that could have decided the game, why not examine the play before that? Derek Fisher's shot on that possession (with seconds left on the clock) was ruled to be an airball, when it clearly (again, with the benefit of instant replay) hit the rim. The shot clock should have been reset, which would have forced the Spurs to foul, which could have pushed the Laker lead up to four. Had that play been ruled correctly, we likely wouldn't even be talking about a controversy on the game's final play.

Do you see the problem with this? We could go back through every possession and find plenty of calls throughout the game that were questionable. Because the game's final possession is always magnified, the league felt the need to comment on it. But they really shouldn't have. Not unless they want whining about officiating to take over the game.

Trailing 93-91 on Tuesday night, the Spurs inbounded the ball with 2.1 seconds left to Brent Barry, who was bumped by Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher on the floor. No foul was called, and Barry missed badly on a 3-pointer before time expired.

[...] "With the benefit of instant replay, it appears a foul should have been called," NBA spokesman Tim Frank said.