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What you think? Compared to the league I follow in Australia in a different sport. The NBA appears to be more fixed and controlled. I dont know. What you guys think
lol son is the WWE scripted?
Most corrupt league on earth but pays me wages
I think influenced may be a better word. If it was flat out fixed, the small market Spurs wouldn't have won jack .
But the Gasol and Garnett trades happening during or before the same season, leading a Boston/LA finals? It does raise an eyebrow.
There's always a gray area in between; I agree, influenced may be a better term.
of course it is. what a silly question.
I don't know if "fixed" is the word, "shaded" is more accurate. From time to time they will try to make something happen for the benefit of the bussiness. And I say try 'cause I don't think Stern or whoever says to the refs "tonight 'team A' has to win at all cause" they will try to mask the message by saying things like "player B isn't getting enough calls", "look what this team is doing, you should start calling this more often" or things like that. So when a team is clearly better than the other there's no problem, the thing is when the two teams are evenly matched.
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It's a big business, big business is about money and image, so anything they can do to maximize profits while keeping their image.
Why do you think the refs can't be scrutinized publicly, for example? There's "logical" reasoning like keeping the players in check from constantly complaining and affecting ref mindsets, but it's much easier to sweep complaints under the rug when only the team complaining and the League Office knows about them.
sometimes its hard to watch the game with LeCrab getting every call he wants and the teams just getting ter etc
When my team loses, it's definitely fixed.
When my team wins, it's definitely not fixed.
Not fixed, no, definitly influenced
Every sport will have some kind of influence. Even the best Refs will have some form of Bias towards a certain team.
I voted "no" because I don't believe it's fixed at the league level. That is I don't believe Stern or any higher up is making it so that big market teams are in the finals more often.
We've had four Spurs championships and LeBron James is in Cleveland Ohio (wherever that is). The league can't be rigged to any measurable degree.
What I do think occurs is that refs manipulate and toy with players at the game level. The refs have favorites and players they hate. They make calls based on their moods or the intensity of the crowd. They make calls to show off or make themselves look good. They might occassionaly do it to throw a game some team's way, but it has more to do with their own personal wagers, grudges, and crushes than league conspiracies.
But what's funny is that despite all that the players still like the regular refs more than the replacements.
NBA: Where Rigged Games Happens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4t5RMFt5u8
The fact that the MAJORITY of you honestly think the NBA is fixed just boggles my ing mind. I always knew that there were a lot of stupid mother ers on this website (that's no secret) but I had no idea the epidemic was this widespread. I don't know whats more sad, that y'all think the league is rigged or that you continue to watch it, spend money on it and post on message boards all day about an allegedly fake game. If you invest that much time, energy and money into something that isn't even real then you might want to look into getting a in life.
NBA Turns a Blind Eye... Again
by Tim Donaghy
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-do..._b_482516.html
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Anyone who voted yes, still watches and then es about the calls etc is wasting valuable oxygen. Just head back into the trailer and keep cooking your meth. Friggen tools.
If the league was fixed we would have never seen Finals like San Antonio-New Jersey, San Antonio-Cleveland, or Portland-Detroit. What a ridiculous question.
That's just plain stupid.
Basically, if your team has never won a championship then yes, its fixed.
Otherwise, no.
My answer is obviously..."YES."
I will add this, seriously. Sterns referees should have been scoured,replaced,refreshed,re-evaluated,scrutinized,forced to resign,taken off the payroll, whatever, etc etc etc...after the Donaghy fiasco.
"He worked alone." Yeah right.
"Independant investigation." Yeah...uhhuh.
Why is this news to anyone? BR has said it numerous times that the wwe and the nba merged together years ago. The storyline scripts for this year are Kobe and Lebron. That is their Stone Cold and Rock. The Nuggets/Magic will be the Bret Harts. Stern will screw them over Montreal style. They just are finding the right script to go along with this storyline.
So the league actively pushes teams that will give them bad ratings and cost them huge money when they could just have a Rockets-Lakers WCF every year and have half the US + half the third world tuning in?That's just plain stupid.
As Donaghy himself demonstrated, it doesn't take some high crime mafia mass conspiracy for the refereeing and by extension part of the outcome to be tampered.
the nba has mechanisms in place to stop it, because its a high stakes compe ive environment (like any other sports league) and there are always going to be people who try to get an advantage. we see it all the time with the lobbying and teams sending footage etc. of course people are trying to pull stuff under the table.
on top of that, refs are human and won't always see the play anyway.
i think they could do a much better job, but i also think there are so many rules and the game is so fast that its impossible for a game to go without constant whistles. the more calls they have to make, the more chance for mistakes.
I think the players decide it, but like DAF86 said, when evenly matched up, that can make just enough difference to be all the difference.
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