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View Poll Results: do you believe that there is a widespread problem with NBA games being fixed?
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If I answer David Stern will give me cement overshoes....
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06-11-2008, 03:45 PM
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Do you believe there is a wide spread problem with games being fixed in the NBA?
easy question....
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06-11-2008, 06:29 PM
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If they really wanted to manipulate the playoffs they wouldn't have ejected Amare Staudamire from game 7 of the Spurs series last season. IMO, the Suns would have been a much better draw for the finals than the Spurs.
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06-11-2008, 06:41 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fourteenandoh
If they really wanted to manipulate the playoffs they wouldn't have ejected Amare Staudamire from game 7 of the Spurs series last season. IMO, the Suns would have been a much better draw for the finals than the Spurs.
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I do think theres some underlying craftiness amongst offcials and the NBA. A team gets jobbed by a bad night, and they try and balance it out. Fixing games is way above that though. I could see NBA executives putting the screws to some officials after poorly called games, forcing them to call a game differently in the future in an indirect way. Jobs should be lost if someone directly told officials to make sure a series goes 7 or allow a team to win b/c of mistakes earlier in the series though.
Humans have a difficult time enough under that much stress, pressure, and influence of a home-court crowd. Just look at any game called in Cameron Indoor. |
06-11-2008, 07:03 PM
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Wade and Shaq versus the Mavs...why did they let the Heat win the series in game six, on the road? Game seven would've been huge $$$.
We've got one guy who got in debt and had to fix games to keep from getting his legs broken or worse. He throws the league and his fellow refs under the bus while awaiting sentencing on his conviction. The motivation is obvious, and so is the series he picked. That Kings-Lakers series fed the NBA conspiracy theorists at the time, so it's the perfect one to use. Otherwise, we have no real evidence.
I heard some talking heads comparing it to Conseco spilling the beans on steroids (and it turns out there was some truth to his words), but there's one big problem with that comparison: Jose wasn't motivated by trying to get a lighter sentence for the same crime he's accusing others of doing.
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06-11-2008, 07:26 PM
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It's been there....Look under ever rock in any sport and there's been something thrown/cheated/ripped off for money..Bar none
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06-11-2008, 07:28 PM
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It's been there....Look under ever rock in any sport and there's been something thrown/cheated/ripped off for money..Bar none
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Sure, people cheat in every sport. The question is whether it is widespread, or the occasional isolated event. The difference between the two is league-wide conspiracy, or not. |
06-11-2008, 07:41 PM
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yes
there has been some suspicious looking 4th quarter comebacks in playoff games in the past 10 or so years that just seem like they are rigged
I think David Stern is trying his best to sweep this under the rug right now.........
I wouldint say it is wide spread though, but I think it does happen
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06-11-2008, 07:48 PM
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