The Los Angeles Lakers lost Game 2 of the Western Conference Semifinals to the Oklahoma City Thunder 125-107 and while there were obvious flaws in the Lakers' game that needs to be addressed before the series resumes in Los Angeles, what drew the most attention on Thursday night was the way that the game was called.

The Thunder are notorious in the NBA for the whistles that they receive and the whistles that many say they get way with and in Game 2 the Lakers' frustration with that phenomenon reached a fever, with Austin Reaves and LeBron James going at it with referees and the Lakers even meeting with officials after the buzzer rang.

Los Angeles head coach JJ Redick spoke after the game that the Thunder are "hard enough to play" and don't need any extra help from officials and that he wants fouls that he sees committed on the court called fairly.

More than that, Redick was particularly upset with the way that the game was called around James, feeling that his star player received a lot of abuse on the court from the opposing team that isn't compensated with fouls from officials.

"LeBron has the worst whistle of any star player I've ever seen. I've been with him two years now," Redick said to the media. "The smaller guys, because they can be theatric, they typically draw more fouls and the bigger players that are built like LeBron, it's hard for them. But, he gets clobbered. He got clobbered tonight again a bunch."

James has attempted just five free throws in the first two games of this series, seemingly evident of the discriminant whistle that Redick said he faces. There were countless times throughout Game 2 where James had to run through the physical defense that the Thunder are so used to being able to provide without any whistles.

Worse than that, James himself would sometimes be called for an offensive in a situation where often it would seem like the call should go the other way.

One such example of that being in the fourth quarter when James collided with Cason Wallace while James was driving toward the paint. A whistle went off and James pulled up and sank a shot after the whistle, expecting an and-one to be in his future.

Instead, Wallace wasn't called for a foul, James was, nullifying the basket. That was one of the last straws for the Lakers and for James, who immediately began pleading his case with referees.

James has accomplished a lot in his 23 season career, but it seems like the one thing he hasn't earned is any kind of attention from referees.