I cannot express enough how I loathe what is going on in the NBA, in regards to the officiating, and the league-wide mandates emanating from Commissioner David Stern's league office in Manhattan. Today the Orlando Magic were told that Dwight Howard's sixth technical, assessed in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals, was rescinded after a review by the league. A seventh technical foul would have forced the Magic superstar to miss a future playoff game - another United Nations Securi...