[Joe]

http://www.nba.com/games/20030511/SASLAL/boxscore.html

Originally posted by A Pennsylvania Coach
I love watching the NBA, and I really enjoying attending a couple of games a year. But I can't shake the feeling that there is something behind the way things turn out sometimes. Take any one event individually (David Robinson's sixth "foul" yesterday, for example) and you can certainly explain it away. But the more NBA I watch, the more questions I have. I especially notice in the games I don't have any interest in who wins. Did you see how the FTA differential has turned in the two games in LA vs the two games in SA in this series?

I'm not a ref, but I've played D1 and NBA competition,
and I wonder too. Likewise, I had no favorite yesterday,
but SA IS attacking the hoop (SA:Points in the Paint 36 LA:Points in the Paint 30) and yet LA went to the line
TWICE as often.... If it worked out like that once in a while, I would write it off, but it happens a lot and it
usually favors the big media market teams....there were
some "interesting" calls in the Minn-LA series too. And
last years LA-Sac. I could go on....


http://www.nba.com/games/20030511/SASLAL/boxscore.html



But I was convinced that the NBA would find a way to get the Wizards into that final playoff spot this year, and they didn't, so maybe I'm crazy.