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I'm not going to do a damn thing. Even if Donaghy is telling the truth and it is fixed, the NBA is still BY FAR my favourite league.
Edit: And I don't believe him anyway.
The business side sucks, but I think the refs are mostly legit. I'll continue to watch.
It's a major issue, but I love basketball, so my viewing will be only slightly affected.
Most sports are tarnished and therefore my viewing will only be mildly/moderately affected.
I plan to wait until the inquiry into the league's refs are complete before making a decision.
The NBA will to refute the allegations, but the game is tainted. I'll watch far less.
The Donaghy situation tarnished everything. I'm completely finished watching NBA games.
I realize that this is probably going to be the most talked about issue on the boards in the next few weeks/months, but I'd like to know what you guys are going to do about it.
I'm not going to do a damn thing. Even if Donaghy is telling the truth and it is fixed, the NBA is still BY FAR my favourite league.
Edit: And I don't believe him anyway.
Last edited by balli; 06-11-2008 at 02:32 PM.
I'll still watch.
Donaghy hasn't said anything that wasn't already obvious - Jordan, the 90s Suns and Knicks, the Jazz, Shaquille Oneal, the threepeat Lakers, Jerry Colangelo and Mark Cuban's effort to eliminate handchecking, Dwyane Wade, etc. etc. Officiating is bad in this league, partly by human error but mostly by policy, and it's gotten much, much worse over the past two decades.
I could claim that I'd stop watching, but I only stopped watching the NBA for a year and a half after the 2006 finals, so I'm pretty much a hypocrite on that regard. But it isn't a die-hard basketball fan like me that the league needs to be worried about - it's the huge majority of non-fans and casual fans who didn't watch before this testimony, a large number of them because they already believed the league is rigged.
The Spurs are too good. Even if somehow a team sneaks in 2 extra players on the court and the refs don't call it, Spurs will still win.
WWE still has a lot of viewers. I don't see why the NBA would be any different.
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I'll be watching as always. I chose number 2
I'll continue to watch, albeit with more focus on the refs.
By the way, FT disparity is no indication that something is awry.
The allegations are just that allegations. However this is being investigated by the FBI and the league claims they have been investigating since Donaghy got busted. Now if the league has something to hide here, it is a good possibility the feds with uncover it. Personally i doubt this will ever be more than Just allegations.
I chose that i'll watch way less. The NBA is a bunch of bull now, I only watched because I love the game and want to see the world's best go at it in a fair 100% non staged compe ion. When it starts looking like it's not 100% legit then I think it's time to move on to college basketball or just enjoy the game by playing it.
The whole thing is bull .
Donaghy's likely telling the truth, doesn't matter if he has an agenda.
The league should really strive to make changes and limit and eliminate the crookedness involved. It really s up the integrity of the game. I don't know how any sports fan wouldn't be angry, especially, with that Kings series. 99 percent of America wanted to see the Lakers get squashed, and got gypped.
How serious is it? WWE fakery and scripts and that rigged? Who knows.
The league does have a problem with officiating and it wasn't more obvious during a playoff run and a major game to have a guy like Crawford who has history with a team like San Antonio be there for THAT game. Then to make it worse than it was you have what happened AT THE END of that game to make things worse. The NBA has themselves to blame for that.
Just don't watch any regular season Dook or UNC games.
And with that, NFL remains king.
Like the NBA was or has ever been close to encroaching upon the NFL's reign over American sports before all this happened..
It's never been close as to which one fans preferred.
It hasn't been close, but in the 90s, the NBA certainly had a pretty solid grip on the sports scene, especially after the Super Bowl. Michael Jordan was more recognizable than any other athlete on the planet.
Now, I wonder if the sport will ever recover.
Yeah, I know. But I like to remind SA residents that the NFL is the most popular league and the only one that matters cause last I checked, the NFL's San Antonio Sai.......oh wait, they don't have a team.
If the worst should come of this, it could rank as one of the biggest sports scandals in a pro league since the "Black Sox" scandal. But, if nothing else, it would lead to a cleaning up of the league. I hope for the best, but fear the worst. Either way, I'll stick with the NBA
Last edited by Appoggiatura; 06-12-2008 at 02:32 PM.
still watch
Spurs # of les = Denver's hockey, baseball, basketball, and football combined.
Have a nice day.
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