Lennar Corporation, founded in 1954, is one of the nation’s leading buildersof quality homes for all generations. The Company builds affordable, move-upand retirement homes primarily under the Lennar brand name.Lennar’sFinancial Services segment provides primarily mortgage financing, titleinsurance and closing services for both buyers of the Company’s homes andothers. Previous press releases and further information about the Company maybe obtained at the “Investor Relations” section of the Company’s website, of the statements in this press release are “forward-looking statements,”as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of1995. These forward-looking statements include statements regarding ourbusiness, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, strategiesand prospects. You can identify forward-looking statements by the fact thatthese statements do not relate strictly to historical or current matters.Rather, forward-looking statements relate to anticipated or expected events,activities, trends or results. Because forward-looking statements relate tomatters that have not yet occurred, these statements are inherently subject torisks and uncertainties.
Many factors could cause our actual activities orresults to differ materially from the activities and results anticipated inforward-looking statements. These factors include those described under thecaption “Risk Factors” in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for ourfiscal year ended November 30, 2008. We do not undertake any obligation toupdate forward-looking statements, except as required by Federal securitieslaws.SOURCELennar CorporationScott Shipley, Investor Relations, Lennar Corporation, +1-305-485-2054. Many people are under the impression that because Kobe’s number of free throws dropped so dramatically in the Lakers-Spurs series that the refs were actually biased against Kobe rather than biased for him. This couldn’t be further from the truth. A player’s amount of free throws alone means nothing when determining if a player has been officiated properly. You could have a player break the record set for free throws in a playoff run, as Dirk Nowitzki did in the Mavs run to the finals, and it still means nothing in how a player is officiated.The reason Kobe had no foul shots is because the spurs had come to the conclusion that fouling Kobe. or making any contact with him is suicide.
The Spurs defenders were literally running away from Kobe.Please do me a favor. Watch both the Mavs’ series where the Mavs faced the Spurs and went on to the Finals, and watch this Lakers series, and specifically, watch how the Spurs defend Dirk versus how they defend Kobe in these two series.Two completely opposite gameplans for these star players With Dirk, the Spurs are as physical as possible Hitting him constantly throughout the series. With Kobe they are literally running away from him and trying NOT to touch him. So, why would they do this? It’s not because Kobe is a better scorer than Dirk. If that was the case, the Lakers wouldn’t have been so willing to trade Kobe FOR Dirk in the off season as Cuban stated they were in a recent interview. And if Kobe was that much better of a scorer than Dirk, Cuban would have made the deal for him and traded Dirk.So, why would the Spurs not touch Kobe at all and beat on Dirk all day long? Because Kobe will get 150% of the calls if you play him physical Kobe will get calls when no one even touches him.
He will get a call every single time anyone even comes near him. Because the NBA refs give guys like Kobe, LeBron, and Wade preferential treatment.It is the complete opposite with Dirk With Dirk, it PAYS to foul him. It pays because the refs are literally only going to call about 5% of the fouls and contact on him. It pays to foul Dirk because eventually you are going to have Dirk with so many freethrows that NBA fans and the media will say Dirk is getting preferential treatment because he is white and because the NBA wants a white player to advance When it’s actually the complete opposite.