Well let's see Donaghy said the Blazers and Kings were jobbed in 2000 and 2002 (that's minus two titles) I personally say Lakers were jobbed in game 2 of the finals 07/08 which swung it to Boston (+1 ring). Kwame for Pau only would happen to the Lakers. Shaq only signs with them because of their cap busting advertisement deals that one only gets in LA. So yeah, it's good to be LA. Players want to go, and refs hand the whistle over after opening tap. Even the Lakers announcers said that last foul on Hayes was BS. Props to Bynum for icining them though. I expect the Lakers to win forever. Legitimate or not? The world may never know. An Ex-FBI agent specializaing in Organized Crime prosecution says Donaghy was telling the truth, and we all know he is in our guts. Yay for a world so corrupt it's the only thing you can count on anymore! I'm considering betting in favor of LA winning another title and on individual games. The one nice thing about a rigged game is you can make money if you know it's rigged.
You mean the HACK that strained Bynum's elbow, had to have an MRI, and is now missing tonights game because of that HACK....please tell me thats not the one you are referring to. Im sure Bynum is missing tonights game just to prove a point...Oh crap just thought of the bet between me and NateBishop....shit, lol Oden will be a game up on Bynum so far!
Every game cannot be that close if the Blazers are going to be a contender, so there is reason for alarm even if we had won. I like the effort that Houston is showing but we should have blown them out in the opener and down there.
Based on KingSpeed's previous posts, what I infer from his posts is that he's trying to say "Relax, guys, it's all the fault of Miller and Oden. Everyone else is doing great. If they hadn't single-handedly lost two games, the team would have a good record." That's not very level-headed, if my interpretation is right.
The Lakers will almost always be a good team. Their fans demand it and the team has enough cash and appeal to get nearly any player they want. That's just reality. Sucks, but what can you do? If I was a young NBA player who is making millions of dollars and my choices of where to play are LA or Portland, 9 out of 10 times LA is going to be destination. Unless Portland WAY over pays to bring them here.
Why would you have Oden in your multi-championship lineup if you think he hurts the team more than he helps?
I mostly just like how Kingspeed is saying if Oden made those free throws we'd win despite the fact Denver would have had 4 seconds left with a one point deficit. I believe Miller's layups were missed with a minute or 40 some seconds left so Atlanta would have had plenty of time itself. Considering how we were guarding the perimeter they probably would have still won. But who cares about such silly things as time left in regulation?
And who cares about everything that happened before those events? Had our franchise player (Travis Outlaw) hit one more shot in either of those games, Portland would have had two extra points by that point and Oden's missed free throws or Miller's missed layup wouldn't have mattered. Outlaw blew those games. And every other close game. The logic is inescapable!
