deep in the heart of dexas

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DALLAS - As soon as official Joey Crawford had inexplicably tossed Tim Duncan on Sunday, the conspiracy machinery that forever shadows the NBA started churning with its theories to justify that delirious decision. Here was the Suns' No. 2 seed in the Western Conference still within the San Antonio Spurs' reach and, the thinking would go, the league didn't want those bland, boring Spurs messing with a Suns-Mavericks conference final. So Duncan goes down for laughing, the Spurs lose to the Mavericks and a Game 7 in the conference semifinal between San Antonio and Phoenix belonged to the Suns. Sheer foolery, yes, and commissioner David Stern delivering Crawford to the gallows was the strongest of messages that the old official's self-important act was most an unsanctioned move