Why the love for the Seattle Supersonics, er, I mean, the OKC Blunder??
The only thing Oklahoma offers is Meth. WTF????
Sob story and they are trying to fabricate a rivalry between LeBron and Durant. Though i think the more and more bull officiating that goes their way the more and more the country will begin to detest the Thunder instead of liking them as the team that can stop the Heat.
There are still plenty of people who think he Thunder are not ref dependent.
this is teh clippers version of 2012 wcf game 6
I don´t have a clue, I understand the servant vs devil thing but come on help vs Grizz, vs Clips, MVP award crying to his Rasputia momma if you need all that help you are not that good... sorry if I burst someone´s bubble.
Its not about the city, its about the NBA trying to pull off a OKC Heat, MVP vs Forum MVP "hero" battle.
Spurs9 is right. It has nothing to do with the city.
The NBA markets celebrities and stars rather than the game of basketball. They want a finals between the two MVPs of the last several seasons.
As long as ONE of the teams in the finals is a big market, they are happy. If there ended up being a Pacers vs. Thunder, they may not be very happy at all.
How do you think OKC pulls off those "amazing" comebacks? If you know that you can do whatever you want and you'll always get all the calls, it's easy to win.
I detest the Thunder. Overrated bunch of preening jackasses.
I'd have much more respect for OKC if they play a better brand of offense. The one-on-one, drive to the hoop, and hoping the refs bail you out on a miss is just painful to watch. Sure it's exciting at times during the regular season when your team is playing the Kings and getting 5 dunks a game, but it's painful to watch in the post-season when teams start to tighten things up of D. KD needs to make sure Brooks doesnt turn him into Melo 2.0, which in the long run is NOT a good thing.
One could argue that their style of offense, much like Harden's, is conducive to drawing "contact" and getting to the line often. This would explain why Durant and Westbrook are the only ones on the team that always shoot 15 FTA in big games.
However that doesn't explain the momentum changing calls that are literally part of their gameplan now. Whenever their ISO offense isn't working you can count on charges, moving screens, traveling, and junk technicals being called on the other team. Deandre Jordan fouled out in the fourth quarter of a playoff game with like 4 minutes to go for a touch foul moving screen. Russell Westbrook literally wins the game at the free throw line for getting bailed out on a shot, the amount of contact being something that goes uncalled dozens of times per game. This sort of stuff is really inexplicable to me, I mean I don't think any of us really believe Silver is on the phone with the refs telling them to influence ball games. But there's almost no other explanation. I mean are we all having simultaneous confirmation bias, every single game?
Durant makes them relevant. In the 90's my other favorite team, the Orlando Magic were just as marketable because of Shaq and Penny Hardaway. Who gives a about them now besides people with a connection to Orlando? No one. Watch what happens after he bolts as a FA.
Look like they came from the circus ninja turtle westbrick, frogface jackson, butler looks like a little debo, brooks looks like a hobbit and kd is a pizza face crying ass got.
A lot of their popularity is a result of the hatred for Lebron and the Heat. The media has marketed Kevin Durant the last few years as the anti-Lebron which is what they have sold to a lot of casual fans. I read a lot of message boards after Durant won the MVP and most of the fan reactions were "Classy guy he deserves it over Lebron, Lebron Kevin is better." Durant fans can't even describe why they like him other than that he is not Lebron. Most Durant fans are just Lebron haters that is the way I look at it. If the thunder go all the way to the finals and loses to Miami then their popularity will take a huge hit since they failed to take out the villain Lebron.
others have stated the need for the NBA to manufacture stuperstars and rivalries. i also think the NBA needs to justify letting the sonics franchise get relocated. "hey look, the team sucked in seattle, but under new management in a new location theyre doing great....so it was a good move for the team!"
Actual Durbeta fans don't exist, only LeBron haters and Kirbystan who need a new foodstamp collector to ride now that their boy is done
Interesting points.
Get KD and the spurs will be the darlings of NBA too. It's all about marketing.
Miami is not big market though. It's the #16 TV market in the country, while Cleveland is #17.
I am stunned, absolutely stunned that anyone would invest their time and money into following something they truly believe was rigged or fixed.
I rank NBA conspiracy theorists on the same level with alien abduction theorists. But let's just say for the sake of argument that the NBA does fix outcomes......why in the world do you watch? It is more asinine than the fixing itself.
conspiracy?
how about NBA asking Spurs to throw game4 to have more product/advertising to sell, aka, Game5.
Well, well ,well, if it isn't this a surprise... Skull hating on people from other places...
Entertainment just like wrestling.
Do you also think they rigged things in 1999, 2003, 2005, and 2007? Or just years when the Spurs don't win?
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