NBA Voodoo: David Stern Fixes the Playoffs

A Different Drummer ^ | 5 June 2002 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

Article argues that NBA Commissioner David Stern wanted so much for the Los Angeles Lakers to extend their two-consecutive NBA championships to a "threepeat," that he fixed the Western Conference Finals against the Sacramento Kings.

[SoCal Pubbie]

If you are not familiar with the ruse Bibby was using to pull Kobe toward him you don't know hoops!

[mrustow]

FYI

[SoCal Pubbie]

Does the NBA still have a team in New York?

[mrustow]

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[diamond6]

How are the Knicks? (Snicker :)

[diamond6]

Call your doctor, complain about something you ate three days ago, then wait for roaring laughter. Bottom line, NOT food poisoning! The Hyatt is one of the cleanest places on earth, or so say the inspectors.

Hey, Wad. First of all, Kobe didn't complain 3 days later. Secondly, it's precisely because the Hyatt is supposedly so clean, that I question why Kobe was poisoned. All it takes is one rabid fan to do something like this. You people in Sacramento have nothing else better to do, but to illegally affect the outcome of a game or a series.

[mrustow]

Does the NBA still have a team in New York?

Sure we do. Granted, about a year ago, the New York Knicks vanished as mysteriously as Judge Crater. Although Chandra Levy's corpse has since been found, there is no guarantee the Knicks will ever be found, dead or alive.

Thank God, we still have the New York Nets!

[diamond6]

I've got news for you - they're in New Jersey.

[kellynla]

"crooked officials?" and what do you have to say about game four where the Kings went to the charity stripe THIRTY- FIVE TIMES compared to 15 times for the Lakers...you sound like a sore loser. The only thing crooked is your logic or maybe that tin foil hat on your head. Face reality your Kings "choked" and they couldn't put the Lakers away on their own home court with home court advantage. Would you like some cheese with your whine? ROFLMAO

[diamond6]

Queens' fans don't talk logically, and they have no answers to our questions about anything other than Game 6, the only game where fouls were called.

[not-alone]

I'm not a Kings fan. Love Tim and the Spurs. I also hope the Heat can get it together soon, that would make the local games more interesting.

[mrustow]

I've got news for you - they're in New Jersey.

Gee, what would I do without you -- not!

I've got news for you -- so are the New York Giants and New York Jets. Now take your irony supplement, and DON'T call me in the morning.

[mrustow]

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[SoCal Pubbie]

Ah, the good old days of the ABA. Julius Irving, Darnell Hillman- I remember it well!

[baseballfanjm]

Webber missed a game tying shot with seconds left, only instead of an air ball, it spun out. Hard to make a ball spin out on purpose. Anytime a team chokes or another team dominates, someone cries "FIX!" I remember people doing the same when the Yanks won three straight games in the World Series. Things quieted down when they lost in the end. My goodness, from what you hear, everything is fixed. If the Yanks or Sox win it all this year, I bet we'd hear the same thing, for different reasons.

[diamond6]

Why are logic and facts too much for you to handle?