The NBA is a joke...

[Metcalf #2]

So you upgrade Draymond Green's foul to a flagrant 2, and fine him 25k. Ok, so you agree he's guilty, yet you refuse to suspend him? Chickenshit move.


Then, you have the Toronto coach, who rightfully complained about heavily one sided officiating. So he gets fined, and now tonight the refs refuse to call not. one. single. goddamn. foul on Cleveland until well into the second freaking quarter??? Tha f*ck outta here. So corrupt it's pathetic.

 

[GuaranteedFresh!]

Yeah, it has been getting quite a bit more....um...suspect, in recent years. The goal of the nba has been to compete with the nfl in terms of viewership and of course $$$. As we all know "mo money, mo problems" and the nba is starting to drown under its own sucess.
I guess if it ain't broken, they'll keep fixing it until it is.

 

[BringBackRoyal]

I stopped being an NBA fan after the Lakers shot 27 FTs in one f***ing quarter in the 2002 playoffs, as Stern's NBA made sure they weren't deservedly bounced in six games by the Kings. I do love and still follow the Spurs (and I pull for the Horns in the league, of course), but I'm nowhere close to as engaged with this thoroughly corrupt mess of a sport as I used to be.

 

[Metcalf #2]

Lebron James is always hacking and shoving people out of his way. He gets his FIRST F*CKING FOUL with 33 seconds left in the THIRD F*CKING QUARTER, and has the nerve to complain about it. Lol. But when Bismack gets a beautiful clean block on Lebron going to the rim, oh hell no, we can't have Lebron getting rejected, FOUL! So sick of this corrupt bullsh*t.

 

[outhereincali]

I share your resentments but in pro sports the stars are always going to get preferential treatment, and championship teams are going to get preferential treatment. And it has always been and is all going to be that way. It's bs but what are you going to do?

That being said what's even more bs was the leagues reasoning. They said it should have been a flagrant 2 and an ejection. But they decided not to suspend him. I took that to mean that the league was telling the refs if you had done your job he would have been kicked out and we're not going to do anything about it. Like I said bs.

All the analysts and the play by play guy said it was a dirty play and was definitely intentional. What did the studio people on ESPN say? I think the TNT guys were being intentionally irreverent but I'm sure they'll be singing a different tune tomorrow.

I want to see the OKC fans boo Draymond Greens ugly mug everytime he touches the ball. He was a non factor after the foul last night let's see how he handles it for a whole game.

 

[clob94]

Metcalf, we know for a fact that at least one NBA ref was corrupt. Tim Donaghy flat out admitted to it and implicated other refs in his expose. David Stern remains the MOST corrupt head of any pro sports league in history-- and that includes the FIFA guys. If one ref is dirty, there's more than one. I don't know if you remember the year the mavs and spurs played and the mavs shot like 61 free throws. Made like 59 of them. Who shoots that many free throws in a playoff game? But Minister Stern was tired of a small market team garnering so much attention. If that dirty bastard had his way, it would have been Lakers vs Knicks or Bulls or Celtics every year in the finals. And the dude that took his place is just Stern 2.0.
Right now small market OKC and small market Toronto have a huge disadvantage to big market Golden st and big market Lebron. The NBA's worst nightmare would have been SA vs LeBron because we know how badly that would have ended. Another 4-1 series where the money counters miss out on 2 or 3 extra finals games.
Make no mistake, those greedy bastards have an agenda. They want every series going 7 games unless it's one of their "big market draw" teams.