Stern rigs the NBA?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I don't know why anyone talks about this stuff? If anyone as a fan thinks that is even a possibility then why watch? Jackson doesn't actually believe this, if he did why coach? You don't work your butt off like these coaches and athletes do if you think there is even a slight chance something shady is going on that would prevent you from winning..Stern rigs the NBA?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
no, just dumbasses
I forgot about that tech; there were several other officiating problems with that series, and I do remember Chuck mentioning that.
That's another thrown game in that series (in addition to Duncan fouling out when Dirk stepped on his planted foot and Terry fouling Bowen out by jumping backwards into him, along with the game 7 no-call when Dirk hacked Duncan across the forearms at the end of regulation). That whole series was an abomination.
If by some miracle, Stern manned up and said that the 2006 Finals were rigged and that the Mavs would be getting the trophy, I would hope they would request a new clean one. I wouldn't want the Mavs touching that trophy that Wade had touched. No one telling what he did with it.
Finals> 2nd round. Sorry but getting screwed by the refs in the Finals is worse than in the 2nd round. Besides, the Spurs had two championships under the belts in 2006. The Mavs were trying to get their first. And let's not forget that the Spurs had one of the easiest journeys toward an NBA championship in 2007. Sorry Spurs fans but I would say you haven't suffered that much.
Bull .
The spurs had been ed for decades before they climbed the mountain--see the 1979 series vs. the Washington Bullets...
But champions climb the mountain and reach the top...
You're honestly going to say that the Spurs franchise has suffered more than the Mavs franchise? Your team has won 4 championships since 1999.
It's okay to admit you got your ass kicked in High School
There are support groups..
Refs cost the Pistons Game 7 against the Spurs. Ridiculous how quickly Detroit's bigs got in foul trouble. The Pistons were the superior team but got screwed by the refs in game 7.
Who knows the amount of suffering endured...but I do know that from 1973 to 1998...every year was a failure...every year the season would end and we could only wish for next season. Maybe next year we can win it all...
1973 through 1998...year after year of believing and wishing and hoping and always seeing someone else win it all...
1999 was sweet...only to hear assholes like PJ talk about *'s
since 1999 I believe the spurs have more than deserved their les...
without 100 million dollar payrolls, gifted lopsided trades, rigged refs, free agent ripoffs, etc...
I'm sure fans of every team ,at one time or another, has thought a game or a playoff series was rigged.
Sorry Spurs fans but your team hasn't been screwed in the Finals so you really can't complain. When the Spurs got their first championship, all of that so-called suffering ended. You can't compare the history of the Mavs to the history of the Spurs. That would like comparing the Clippers to the Lakers.
The only thing for sure in common for every team is that everyone one of them got screwed by referees in a critical game.
This defeatist at ude is a plague. As a longtime Spurs fan, I've seen it in ranks.
The Mavs haven't been screwed, they've yet to take what they believe is theirs. about how the Finals were called all you want but they were called that way to make the game more free-flowing and prevent teams like the Spurs and Pistons from thriving while the more aesthetically pleasing teams faltered.
The Mavs benefited from it against the Spurs. happens. Whatever. All teams need a little good fortune to win a championship, they benefited just enough to win a series against a team where the talent was relatively even.
They then get the Suns - without Amar'e. Once again, a charmed run. I'm sure Suns fans were pissed they finally had the opportunity to get to the Finals and win a championship, without having to see the Spurs, only to have it go by the wayside without Stoudemire in the lineup. Oh- ing-well. No one apologizes for winning a championship. Mavs move to the Finals.
Who awaits? Maybe the 4th or 5th best team in the league that year, Miami. A team, much like the Mavs, that benefited from the new points of emphasis to allow a more free-flowing game against the Pistons. A team relying on a star who could take advantage of the rules in much the same way Dirk did, just in a very different way - a mismatch is a mismatch is a mismatch.
The Mavs went up 2-0. The Mavs had the Heat on the brink of 3-0. They. Did. Not. Close. The. Deal. Period.
Four consecutive losses, in the Finals, after winning the first two, winning three-fourths of the third, having the MVP, one of the league's highest payrolls, and-they-did-not-get-it-done.
I know why it hurts, I know how rare those opportunities are and how extremely fortunate the Mavs were for that particular run and that it's likely to never happen again - not like that, anyway - but it is what it is. The Mavs didn't take the reins and take what could have been theirs. Such is life. happens.
No. Clippers and Mavs both the same regardless of who you compare them to. Much bigger gap between the Clippers & Lakers than Mavs & Spurs. Like 4 times.
What you talkin bout Negro?
So there were ty calls. Why did the Mavs put themselves in that position?
They were 2-0, on the verge of 3-0 and then lost four straight. Did the cheat button initiate late in Game 3?
I saw ty reffing. I saw it in the Spurs-Dallas series and throughout the playoffs. I saw it on a magnified and intensified level in the Finals because it was, well, the Finals.
Wade ripped that from the Mavs, using the bull point-of-emphasis Stern and the League put into in action and saw to being enforced in the playoffs. When Wade in took it up a notch and going to the cup at will, he got rewarded like a ing king.
But when Wade started going harder and getting to the line consistently (fair or not), the Mavs never met the challenge, Dirk never met the challenge. If that Dirk had been playing against the Spurs, the player he was after they blew Game 3, there isn't a chance in they're in the Finals.
The Heat, Wade, ripped that from them. Dirk and the Mavs had every opportunity to overcome that . They didn't. You can't ing blow a 2-0 lead like that, not against an inferior team like that...
that was so rigged. Since then, i'm hoping the mavs will win it all one time before Dirk retires.
Saw the Spurs go through LA twice on their want to championships. They took that .
Dallas can't lose that . Can't. ty officiating or not, the Heat had no business being close enough for bad calls to be the deciding factor, especially when Dirk could have gone right back at Posey and Haslem and Shaq and Mourning and done similar kind of .
If they had what it took to be champions that year, they'd be champions.
Anybody that even tries to defend this needs to eat a fat . Straight up.
Wade ain't without FTAs. I should copyright that.
I seriously think some people didn't watch this series, anyone who says Wade was going to the rim all the time in this series is BS-ing. Wade was getting foul calls by flopping every time he shot a jumper or floater. And that's exactly why he ended up shooting 97 freethrows in 6 games.
Well, 2b claims Midge is extra partial to . He's your man.
IF the game is rigged that would mean that Stern instructed the officials to see to it the Heat won the finals. In this day and age good luck keeping that under wraps from the media. And if the NBA is rigged how do the Spurs win 4 les since 1999 when they pull bad ratings in the finals. Ya think Stern would have taken care of that one too huh? Claiming games are rigged is just another way for fans to complain and make excuses for why there teams sucks..
I'm not changing my tune on that series. Mavs choked period. As many free throws as D-Whistle got down the stretch the Mavs also got the same freebies when it mattered. The difference is Wade made his....the Mavs didn't. They choked under the spotlight Karl Malone style and missed those freebies. , one of those games they choked 3 free throws in the last in minute while trying to keep the lead. You think they deserve a championship doing that ? I don't think so.
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