Do you think Game Six of the 2002 WCF was fixed?

[pjjrfan]

No, but calling that foul on Bibby for getting smashed in the face by Bryant's elbow at the end was shameful. Bavetta's an idiot.

I gotta agree with that. That game was very frustrating and the NBA still defends it as a well called game. If you saw the game it was sickening.

[iggypop123]

of course game 6 was fixed. just as game 5 was fixed. it was just our turn , the kings didnt argue when they had it in their favor in game 5 did they?

[sabar]

In my job, there are also human errors - mixing up a deadline, transposing two numbers, misunderstanding what an accounting code is to be used for. It happens.

But in my job, there is a point at which you will no longer be employed if you continue to make the same errors over and over and don't learn from your previous mistakes. In fact, I would think that to be true of most jobs. That if you screw it up, you no longer retain it after a certain, measurable time.

I'd like to know why that doesn't seem to happen so much in the NBA. Yes, refs are let go every year, but some of the worst offenders have been on the payroll the longest.

This part is easy -- the extreme majority of jobs don't require their employees to have precision to a tenth of a second. Most tasks can be thought out. Even intense jobs like an air traffic controller have a few seconds to make decisions, but refs do it virtually at an instant.

The preseason highlighted how difficult the job is versus how easy it is perceived to be.