When you really think about this game there are two crooked things which occured. One was Crawford making the same bogus call twice on the Spurs best player leading to an ejection. The second is how Avery Johnson let it be known that no one would play more than 26 minutes and suddenly they were playing as if this were a playoff game. The oddsmakers opened the game at Dallas -1 and everyone apparently was betting SA for good reason. Then Joey Crawford decided to change the game because he had to.
He probably made himself and someone else a small fortune on two laughing technical fouls on Tim Duncan.
Joe Crawford should be suspended by the NBA for those calls. When I think back to all the calls I've ever questioned in any sport these two take the cake. Phantom pass interference, bizarre penalties, weird strike three calls and managerial moves but nothing and I mean nothing compares to two laughing technical fouls. If Joe Crawford wasn't involved in fixing this game then he is one very insecure man to get riled by a player simply laughing on the bench at maybe his bad refereeing.