Why is the new trend on here to think the NBA ref's are fixing games?

[Easy-E]

@holidayinn21

"Stern told a fan that the NBA needed a seven-game series, that the league needed the money. When the commissioner makes a statement like that to a fan, you know it's going to be tough. When Stern makes a statement like that, things are going to happen. You just don't make statements like that and not expect anything out of it. He's the commissioner and he shouldn't be saying anything like that. The NBA wanted a seventh game because they wanted to make more money and they got their wish. There is no reason for me to lie. He said it. He's a man and he'll live up to it. He may say he said it in jest. But I'm out there trying to make a living and win a championship."

So the Commissioner of the NBA admited his evil plot to a fan?

 

[Trip]

this is a new trend? people like to claim conspiracy because we have seen it in action before. tim donaghy happened. the lakers/kings and mavs/heat series happened. the mavs lost a mathematically impossible number of games that danny crawford reffed in the playoffs until that was exposed in the mainstream.

Yes

 

[Woodwerkz]

 

[Liquid]

The Donaghy thing, the 06 finals and this cast a dark shadow over the league...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_i3Vnd0n44&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Those are the most obvious ones. The NBA was officially a joke to me after the 2006 NBA Finals.

The NBA is a business man...people tend to forget that. Once I saw the spurs swept the Grizz...yeah the Miami-Indy series is going 7. There is no way the NBA was going to allow that much time off between games.

 

[holidayinn21]

@holidayinn21



So the Commissioner of the NBA admited his evil plot to a fan?

nikka why u asking me like I was there?

 

[p00rky]

I'm always blown when people bring this up. You really think that was an offensive foul?

So you are allowed to push the defender?

Consider the dream totally restored. On Monday night, Chris Paul hit a game-winning floater to give the Clippers a 2-0 series lead over the Grizzlies. Many observers quickly pointed to Paul’s use of his left arm against Tony Allen — two or three clearing swipes and then a light shove to create space — to assert that perhaps a hard-fought game shouldn’t have been decided on this particular play. Jackson waded into that discussion.

“Not only are offensive players able to push off, they can use off arm to shield off defense,” he noted. “Heisman offensive move.”

Of course, such a complaint opened him wide to charges of hypocrisy, seeing as how Jackson’s sixth ring with the Bulls was delivered by Michael Jordan on a game-winning jumper during Game 6 of the 1998 Finals, a shot set up by a slight shove of Jazz guard Bryon Russell.

http://nba.si.com/2013/04/23/phil-jackson-michael-jordan-push-off-bryon-russell/

 

[Easy-E]

nikka why u asking me like I was there?

You posted it as if you believe it.

 

[holidayinn21]

You posted it as if you believe it.

why does it matter if i believe it or not?

i was responding to dude who said conspiracies weren't prevalent during the jordan era, when it's actually been around since the beginning of stern's reign.

 

[Digga38]

My 2 biggest problems with conspiracy theorists:

1. Just because we don't believe these grand, dramatic schemes, doesn't make us naive sheep.
   
   Like @Born2BKing posted; There's no way I believe David Stern is, like Dr. Claw, sitting in a room and calling the refs, "I want the Heat to win in 7." The risk doesn't add up. He has more to lose gettin' caught fixing games than a certain team (again, none of the final four were big market team).
   
   But, I don't believe Doughty was the only dirty ref.
2. Just because it can happen, doesn't mean it is.
   
   The frozen envelope, giving Benson the #1 pick to buy the Hornets and Cleveland after Lebron, etc. are all nice ideas. But, stop being mad at ppl for not believing EVERY conspiracy that comes out.
   
   Some people still believe Tommy Hilfiger went on Oprah and said he didn't want black ppl wearing his clothes.

 

[ghostwriterx]

So you are allowed to push the defender?



Phil Jackson tweets about Michael Jordan's push-off on Bryon Russell in 1998 NBA Finals | The Point Forward - SI.com

If that's a foul there would be a whistle every possession.

 

[p00rky]

If that's a foul there would be a whistle every possession.

So I guess traveling shouldn't be called than too. Carmelo got called for push off fouls in his series... One of the reasons he was in foul trouble

You sound like those people that tried to justify Blake Griffins offensive foul dunks on Gasol awhile back or the Shaq offensive fouls that never got called when he was active.

When is a "foul" a "foul"?

 

[ghostwriterx]

So I guess traveling shouldn't be called than too. Carmelo got called for push off fouls in his series... One of the reasons he was in foul trouble

You sound like those people that tried to justify Blake Griffins offensive foul dunks on Gasol awhile back or the Shaq offensive fouls that never got called when he was active.

When is a "foul" a "foul"?

If you really think that weak @ss "push off" was a foul there's really nothing to discuss.

 

[Born2BKing]

why does it matter if i believe it or not?

i was responding to dude who said conspiracies weren't prevalent during the jordan era, when it's actually been around since the beginning of stern's reign.

I'm sure there were instances here and there but in 2013 nikkas on that shyt non-stop. Stern this, Stern that. This ain't the WWE brehs and Stern isn't Vince McMahon. Every 5 minutes you have a nikka on here talkin bout "Stern ain't gonna let the pacers win tonight"

 

[Juven]

the heat will win.

nah the nba isnt rigged

 

[CrimsonTider]

Don't forget 01 Bucks vs. Sixers.


Even Ray Allen said the game was fixed

"I think there's no question about that. The league, as a marketing machine, the bottom line is about making money," Allen said. "It behooves everybody for the league to make more money, and the league knows that Philadelphia is going to make more money with L.A. than we would with L.A."