Heat Reporter Brian Windhorst is Just Plain Wrong About Tom Thibodeau, Lebron James

CHICAGO, IL.  Brian Windhorst is just plain wrong when he put ass to toilet seat and crapped out this masterpiece of journalism. Not surprising that he is paid to cover the Miami Heat for the "Heat Index" page on ESPN.com; he is not exactly an unbiased commentator on this contentious Chicago Bulls vs. Miami Heat series.

Tom Thibodeau looks on in disbelief during the 4th Quarter of Game 3.

His assessment of Tom Thibodeau as a man is dead on. Thibs has been the rock during a season of ups and downs, injuries to the team's leaders and most talented stars. Despite all this, Thibodeau has not made excuses. He preps himself and his team to "bring it" every night.

Shorthanded, it is his quote that ALL future coaches will use in their pregame interviews when asked whether without their key players, do they stand a chance of victory: "We have enough."

Here is where Windhorst strayed from his accurate impression of Thibs; Thibodeau was not making excuses for the way he and his team played. No, he was watching what the rest of the world beyond the Miami Heat and their fair-weather, band-wagoning, late-strolling into the stadium fans saw.

A complete lack of impartiality by NBA officials worthy of a chant of "BULL$#!T!" from the United Center crowd, who not only paid a substantial amount of money to attend this one of many NBA games, despite the loss of MVP and All-Star, Derrick Rose, for the entire season, but filled the United Center to root on their undermanned team, only to see them screwed by call after ridiculous call. Can you feel their outrage?



And as something resembling a sports "journalist" why are you, Brian Windhorst, not holding the NBA and its officials accountable for making clearly and obviously preferential calls for the Heat going down the stretch of the 4th Quarter of the game?

In your commentary, you recalled the "hard but clean foul" Chris Anderson put on Nate Robinson. Chicago fans appreciate a playoff foul when we see one. The Chicago Bulls have played out of a sense of survival all season long.

The problem is, when the Chicago Bulls commit "hard but clean" fouls on Miami Heat players, particularly on 2013 MVP, Lebron James, he whines about all the "non-basketball plays", and then the next day, ESPN features how the Bulls used dirty plays to end the Heat's 27-game winning streak.

There can be no two ways about it. NBA basketball games should be called fairly, without discretion to who the player was fouled or committed the foul. "Superstar-calls" are making a joke of professional basketball. All the talk of Lebron James' legacy is a farce if all his championships are gained in this environment where a less talented, less star-studded team can not compete because despite the team's will, heart, and effort, the calls are always going to go against them.

Brian Windhorst seems to have a pretty good eye for men; I wonder what is his measure of a man who receives the MVP and barely decides to show up for the first half and disappears in the fourth quarter of the only game in the series that has been fairly officiated. Is that the type of man you can have in the Hall of Fame next to Magic, Larry, and Michael?

Let us know what you think of Brian Windhorst's comments about Tom Thibodeau and the Chicago Bulls, and does Lebron James deserved to be remembered as a winner with all the help he receives from NBA officials? Tell us in the comments below!