League trying to wear Spurs down

[duncan228]

I think Ploto gave out the schedule list of all teams have to play a grueling schedule in March and they were all top teams in the west.

http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89691

Just like we just had this 8 games in 11 nights crap other teams will have similar schedules:

Rockets:

Sun, Mar 16 LA Lakers
Tue, Mar 18 Boston
Wed, Mar 19 @ New Orleans
Fri, Mar 21 @ Golden State
Sat, Mar 22 @ Phoenix

5 games in 7 days.


Lakers:

Sun, Mar 16 @ Houston
Tue, Mar 18 @ Dallas
Thu, Mar 20 @ Utah
Fri, Mar 21 Seattle
Sun, Mar 23 Golden State
Mon, Mar 24 @ Golden State

6 games in 9 days.


Hornets:

Sun, Mar 16 @ Detroit
Mon, Mar 17 Chicago
Wed, Mar 19 Houston
Sat, Mar 22 Boston

4 games in 7 days (not as bad, but Detroit, Houston, and Boston all tough games)


Suns:

Sat, Mar 22 Houston
Mon, Mar 24 @ Detroit
Wed, Mar 26 @ Boston
Fri, Mar 28 @ Philadelphia
Sat, Mar 29 @ New Jersey
Mon, Mar 31 Denver
Tue, Apr 1 @ Denver

7 games in 11 nights. (Again, not as bad, but mostly all tough games.)

Welcome to the NBA- March 2008. I am so tired of reading Spurs fans whine about the schedule when EVERY team has to face this.

Rockets have 11 games in 18 days-- without Yao.

Raptors have 11 games in 19 days-- 8 on the road and without Bosh.

Lakers have 11 games in 20 days-- most probably without Gasol and Bynum

Utah has had 11 games in 20 days.

It is the nature of the schedule for every team this time of the year.

[SpurOutofTownFan]

The amount of whinning in this forum has reached new levels of "patheticism"

Then the spurs blow some team out and play seemless BB and all these people post the team is the best in the world.. etc.. zero credibility.

[DarrinS]

Who brought up Sacramento?

Are they still in the league?

[sribb43]

I am serious. The league wants it Lakers-Celtics. Big business does not want Spurs in the Finals, much less Sacramento! Plenty of money to be lost if that happens.

that must be the case bc the Lakers have a very difficult stretch this late in the season as well @NO, @hou, @dal, @Utah

oh ya and dont forget about the C's stretch

Utah, @SA, @Hou, @Dal

[CubanMustGo]

And every Finals the Spurs are in, considerably less and less people tune in to watch. The league losses money.

Ah, I see, you're a Phoneyix fan.

Even if that were the the case (and it's not, the league gets its money from television contracts that were signed years in advance), the trend has been going on long enough that if the league wanted to do something about it, SA wouldn't have been allowed to sniff the Finals after the '03 championship.

But don't let logic get in the way, you obviously haven't so far so why start now.

And gotdammit I hate it when I have to agree with Ploto.

[Gino]

Isn't it funny that, at the time, ESPN and was vigorously promoting the Spurs/Pistons finals in 2005.

"Top ten resasons you should watch!"

"Basketball at its best!"

And now they openly claim they don't want to see another dreaded Spurs/Pistons matchup.

Hey, at least that was better than Spurs vs. Cavaliers!

[ancestron]

Isn't Mark Cuban a troofer?

I wouldn't be surprised.

[hsxvvd]

I've never understood the conspiracy theories that have the NBA and Stern against the Spurs. Given Stern's consistent efforts to 'clean up' the game from the selfish, gangster image of the 90's, I would have thought the nice guy, team orientated, respectable image of the spurs is what he'd like.

If anything, there are conspiracies against the 'Spreewells" of the league.

[Obstructed_View]

David Stern hates the Spurs. That's why he ignored the black and white rule and overturned the suspensions against Diaw and Amare. They should have been suspended but because everybody wanted him to overlook it, and because he knew the Suns were the more glamorous matchup, he allowed them to play. That, combined with Bowen's two game suspension was enough to help the Suns advance only to lose in six games to the eventual champions, the Utah Jazz, who swept Cleveland in the lowest rated sporting event in the history of TV ratings.