The Lakers suffered a disastrous 119-108 loss Saturday night when the Denver Nuggets went into Los Angeles and took a commanding 3-0 Western Conference Finals series lead.

While the loss leaves the Lakers and LeBron James in the unenviable position of having to pull off a 3-0 playoff series deficit comeback that no NBA team has ever accomplished, James didn’t leave the game without taking his pound of flesh — albeit unintentionally.

And much to the chagrin of Lakers fans, James didn’t even bloody a Nuggets player.

It was longtime NBA referee Scott Foster who bore the most noticeable battle scars after Game 3.

Deep in the second quarter of the game, the Nuggets had just scored on a basket, and in an effort to race up the court off the in-bounds, James collided with Foster.

Keep a particular eye on the bottom of the clip when it begins:

WARNING: The following video contains imagery that the viewer may find disturbing.

“I was already in sprint mode…my bad, Scott.”

LeBron, Austin Reaves, and Scott Foster mic’d up on ABC pic.twitter.com/TX8rGyYQzZ

— NBA (@NBA) May 21, 2023

At first glance, the collision hardly seems that bad.

But when you consider that James, a 6-foot-9, 250 pound man, was running full bore into a much smaller 56-year-old man, even a glancing blow could be catastrophic.

Somewhere in the bodily collision, Foster took a shot to the mouth or his face area, as evidenced by the splattering of blood on the veteran referee’s face.

James appeared overly concerned at first. In the clip above, he can be heard saying “the same as with us,” alluding to the automatic stoppage in play when a player bleeds.

“Relax,” an almost annoyed-sounding Foster responded. “I’ve got it.”

The referee then proceeded to wipe more blood off of his face with a towel.

While the imagery was initially gruesome, the entire incident led to a moment of brevity as James’ own teammate, Austin Reaves, jokingly threw him under the bus.

“That should be a tech[nical foul against James], honestly,” Reaves told Foster later in the game.

“I didn’t see him,” James said, jumping in. “I turned and went.”

“Nah, I was trying to get out of your way,” Foster responded matter-of-factly.

“My bad, Scott,” James said.

Foster appeared to be taking the situation a bit more seriously than Reaves (but perhaps not as seriously as James), before cracking a joke at James’ expense:

“You’ve been wanting to do that for 25 years,” Foster said to James.

James and the Lakers officially have zero margin for error as Game 4 gets set to tip off on Monday evening.

If the Nuggets can nab just one more win in four attempts against the Lakers, Denver will be heading to its first ever NBA Finals in franchise history.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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The University of California Berkeley finds itself embroiled in controversy as it hosts an exclusive “black-only graduation ceremony,” which directly contradicts the principles of racial equality and integration established during the Civil Rights movement.

The African American Studies Department at UC Berkeley announced in March that they would be holding their annual “Black Graduation” ceremony for students in May.

“The Department of African American Studies plans on hosting our annual Black Graduation ceremony, which is open to all majors and degree programs across the campus,” read the announcement.

On Saturday, UC Berkeley held its black-only graduation at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley.

“Black Graduation is an annual, campus-wide ceremony that celebrates all Black/African/African American identifying students upon completion of their undergraduate, master’s, Ph.D., J.D., and/or professional degree programs,” the live stream caption read.

Campus Reform reported that the public university’s separate graduation for African American students has been going on annually since 2013.

The exclusive nature of the ceremony raises concerns about conflicts with the principles of equality and integration that were established during the Civil Rights movement.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example, prohibits racial discrimination in public accommodations, which includes educational institutions. The act aimed to dismantle segregation and create a society where individuals are treated equally, irrespective of their race.

“We’re disheartened to see universities like Columbia and now Berkeley veer so far to the left that they’re resurrecting Democrats’ segregationist history,” California College Republicans Communications Director Dylan Martin told Campus Reform.

“Encouraging our separation into groups – saying there should be something separate and special for different races – furthers the division in this country. The solution to racism is not segregation. CCR is happy to represent all College Republicans in the state in condemning these segregationist actions,” Martin said.

WATCH:

The University of California Berkeley proudly hosts a “black only graduation ceremony,” where participation is based on race, contradicting the very laws established during the Civil Rights movement, which vehemently outlawed racial segregation.pic.twitter.com/icfiwCIgcC

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) May 21, 2023

Below is the full two and a half hour ceremony:

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