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If you don’t think the NBA is fixed
Posted by Trips Right on May 26th, 2009 under Basketball
Or at least manipulated and massaged by officiating, watch the last 4 seconds of the Orlando vs. Cleveland game. Keep in mind, an Orlando win basically ensures the Magic will advance to the finals after taking a commanding 3 games to 1 lead.
The drawn foul by Lebron is asshattery at its best. The non-call on the lob to Howard with .5 seconds to go directly after it and David Stern might as well field a team of Von Erichs, or their bastard offspring.
We are all witnesses.
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Huh?:
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I linked it for Nate. Nate fears no man and only some women.
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Ambergris, you got one of VY’s digits correct.
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uthookem said:
May 26th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
You mean, you don’t think Carl Landry would have gotten that call on the same drive with Kobe guarding him?
The non-call on the lob was decent IMHO, they both were guilty of fouling. Will be interesting to see how soon Howard fouls out in OT.
DJ said:
May 26th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
The blocking foul was ticky-tack for sure, but I don’t think there was a foul on the last play.
Trips Right said:
May 26th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
The non-call was fine, if the same set of douchebags hadn’t made the call for James.
chicka chicka bow bow said:
May 26th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Ummm… I agree on the LeBron call, but Howard was trying so hard to get the call, he’s lucky he wasn’t called for a fould himself. That one was a good non-call, especially after seeing it 2 more times.
Steve Nebraska said:
May 26th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Agree on the block, disagree on the lob. How much you wanna bet Dwight Howard picks up technical foul number 7 in game 5?
big t said:
May 26th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
fuck the refs the cavs still suck thats why they lost
Captain Call said:
May 26th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Tell us how you really feel big t
honkskillet said:
May 27th, 2009 at 5:02 am
The non call was perfectly legit. All the commentators on the TNT postgame show agreed too. The blocking call was closer but certainly not an outrageous call.
kevwun said:
May 27th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Howard tried to run through Varejao to get the lob.
ponderos said:
May 27th, 2009 at 5:29 am
The NBA has obviously rigged these playoffs to make sure we get Denver and Orlando in the Finals.
BEHorn said:
May 27th, 2009 at 6:10 am
The best part is that guys at home, with instant replay and a couple hours to ponder it all, still don’t agree on the two calls.
Bornahorn said:
May 27th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Shaq got called for the massive bump stuff that Howard got away with in the lane. He mugged Varejao. At one point, he lowered his shoulder and stuck it into Varejao’s chest.
Stats Are For Losers said:
May 27th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Trips,
I agree. The state of officiating in the NBA is only rivaled by the football officiating in the BIG 12. The only thing that gives NBA officiating the edge is the fact that they blatently skewing the calls to certain individuals (Lebron,Kobe,Wade.) Those three are acutely aware that all they have to do to get to the line is jump into someone and they will get a bailout call.
hiphopopotamus said:
May 27th, 2009 at 6:31 am
I’m with the commenters here…the call for LeBron was ridiculous at best, but if they’d called Varejao on that last play, I might have been forced to boycott the league until a change was made.
Rhymenocerous said:
May 27th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Come on people… There have been much worse calls (and non calls) in the playoffs than the 0.5 seconds blocking foul. LeBron drove and the guy impeded his progress while moving enough for LeBron to sell a trip.
On the other side, Howard and Varejao were competing for a loose ball where neither really had position… And Varejao ended up in a jiujitsu headlock takedown.
Steve Nebraska said:
May 27th, 2009 at 7:14 am
I’m sorry, but that’s just not a call you can make with .5 seconds left, in the playoffs, on the road. A foul is contact that creates an advantage, in a nutshell. Lebron initiated the contact. A defensive player doesn’t have to be completely stationary to avoid a blocking foul. How did Pietrus create a disadvantage for Lebron there?
Kafka said:
May 27th, 2009 at 9:19 am
In the playoffs, the road should not have anything to do with it (it is the playoffs).
The call for Labron was ridiculous. A complete bailout.
Howard should have gotten the call, especially when you consider the call for Labron a few seconds earlier. Basically he was ridden out of bounds.
Stern is a corrupt guy who only thinks of how to improve the ratings. He is desperate to get Labron matched up against Koby in the finals.
BTW, this 7 technical foul limit in the playoffs is more bs. If you want to increase technicals, then make the fine a % of salary (enough so that it hurts) but don’t increase the ability of these corrupt refs to influence the outcome of these games even more.
The General said:
May 27th, 2009 at 9:43 am
Saying that the NBA is rigged, would imply a level competence that I see no evidence of.
But, the powers that be seem to schedule crowd swayable refs in home games that The League needs a certain winner.
f3driver said:
May 27th, 2009 at 10:02 am
The von Erich’s were DQ’d because while Freebird Michael Hayes had Kevin in an illegal choke, Brian Adias stormed into the ring and unintentionally struck Bronco Lubich with a folding chair. Very similar to the LA – Houston series.
exuLt said:
May 27th, 2009 at 10:14 am
That’s why they call it entertainment.
There’s some wrestling fans still in denial, too.
Kafka said:
May 27th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Most NBA fans think that stars get preferential treatment, i.e. the star call. Certainly the home team gets better calls during the regular season. Don’t these very prevalent examples of officiating misconduct indicate that NBA officiating is systematically biased?
Trips Right said:
May 27th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Nice contribution from HenryJames. Wait, where’d he go, midget porn is funny as hell.
Mack Tripper said:
May 27th, 2009 at 11:15 am
I don’t care who wins the series, but if anything, Howard could have been called for a foul.
the Bobs said:
May 27th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
clearly Pietrus hammered LeBron’s elbow with his chest…
lawdog13 said:
May 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
I didn’t need much convincing, but the end for me was when the asshat called the foul on Howard in the previous game on Lebron’s late three point attempt. Have never seen a more blatant screw job in forty plus years of watching hoops. A superstar has to work hard not to score forty with the current script writers.
The General said:
May 27th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Would you buy an asshat in an asshaberdashery?
blind dude said:
May 27th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
I love the informed cynical commentary of BC to tell me which games I should/not pay attention to. Thank you BC for your arbitrage.
INTERACTIVE TELEVISION said:
May 28th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Some sports games are fixed-on every level, in every genre. I often ask myself; “why do I even bother to watch” ? /
Crazy Joe Clark said:
May 29th, 2009 at 7:38 am
The Lakers vs Sacremento Kings series a few years back was more rigged than a Cuban election
the Bobs said:
May 29th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
there’s a strange, sick part of me that kind of hopes the Cleveland LeBrons get through and play the L.A. Kobes… The only reason is that I just want to see what happens in a big game if LeBron runs into Kobe – what will the officials do? I don’t think even they know, I can just see Joey Crawford’s head explode from the sheer cognitive dissonance of not being able to call a big-moment foul on either of them… it’ll be the NBA equivalent of an irresistible force vs. an immovable object.