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Tue Jun 10, 2008, 10:22pm
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NBA embarassment
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Tue Jun 10, 2008, 10:33pm
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Wed Jun 11, 2008, 06:10am
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Just the same, this kind of cr@p is what fans want to hear...the fix is in...the ref had it in for us. It'll be interesting to see if it goes any further.
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Wed Jun 11, 2008, 09:32am
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This is horse bleep...true or not, it just feeds the public perception and THAT sucks!
I will say this though....David Stern repsonded on ESPN and some of his answers were choppy and seemed like he didn't really believe what he was saying. Could have been that he was sincere and answering off the cuff with out a prepaired statement but if if somebody is not guilty I would think their answers would have been a bit more precise....Makes me wonder if Tim Doneghy(sp) is not telling the truth at least in part.... 
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Wed Jun 11, 2008, 09:39am
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I have zero confidence in the convicted felon. A conspiracy by the NBA to ensure a game 7 would certainly have come out somewhere. The potential downside should it come out is so massive and devastating that no sane organization would take the risk. Not when the reward is one more game's revenue. Stern is nothing if not calculating, and if he was considering something this nefarious, he would have certainly thought of the colossal risk with a very high probability of coming to fruition.
Until more evidence comes out, I'm taking this for what it is. Desperate anomisity from a convicted felon attempting to lash out at the NBA and reduce his sentence.
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Wed Jun 11, 2008, 10:14am
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This was the topic of discussion on local talk radio last night, as you might imagine, this being Jazz country and all. And, of course, they dragged out all the most cherished conspiracy theories about the NBA. The biggest being that the NBA always tries to ensure two big market teams make it to the finals, preferably Boston and L.A.
Except that Boston and L.A. haven't been to the finals in what...the past 23 years until now? Which makes that a pretty impotent conspiracy if it exists. I'll buy that the league promotes and protects the stars. The NBA is a business and nobody pays for season tickets to watch Kobe sitting on the bench with 4 fouls or an injury. But there are just too many variables involved, too many players who are in it only for themselves, and too few consistently "predictable" outcomes for the league and its officials to be exercising the kind of control over the game that so many conspiracy theorists cry about. I'm betting (no pun intended) that our friend has a book deal in the works and is laying ground work for an "expose" of some kind.
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