Do you think the NBA is a fair game?

WHENEVER BILLIONS OF DOLLARS ARE AT STAKE, FAIRNESS IS THE FIRST VICTIM.

When the entire game can be continually manipulated by the officiating on a second by second basis and repeatedly excused as a "judgement call" or simply be acknowledged the next day in a league statement of "It appears the officials made an incorrect call on the last play of last night's 1 point double-overtime game" without correcting the wrong outcome, fairness simply cannot occur.

Games are won and lost by momentum, and last night the game was pretty much neck and neck until momentum turned on a crucial call and the Blazers never recovered.

The call was made by BLAKE GRIFFIN, and then quickly affirmed by a lazy ref who hadn't even been looking in that direction.

The call was shown in replay a minute later and clearly proved to be a lie by Griffin, and therefore obviously a willing and deliberate lie for the ref to say he saw it when it never happened.

Is the ref afraid to rebut "Star" Griffin, or fawningly seeking his approval, another Tim Donaghy, or just obscenely incompetent and trying to cover his ass?

Either way, to allow him to continue to ref playoff level games shows the league prefers his type of officiating rather than a higher standard of professionalism.

 

I'm fine with the team being overmatched. I just can't stand watching the refs affect the game time and time again. We saw it against the Lakers in the early 2000s. We saw it against Houston with Roy and then again with Lillard. We are seeing it now with LAC. I'm tired of watching guys like Shaq or Blake Griffin do whatever they want. I'm tired of watching guys like Wade and Chris Paul get a foul if you even remotely touch them. This has been going on for decades. It's a joke.

I watched the Ducks get obliterated by the Ohio State Buckeyes. They were simply outmatched. I didn't complain about the refs. The Ducks just simply couldn't defend that Bucks team, but if the NBA was in charge of the refs for that game, the Ducks would have been called for unnecessary roughness on every single tackle of Ezekiel Elliott. The way the NBA coddles guys like Griffin and Paul, it's like getting called for roughing the passer if you come within 5 feet of the QB.

 

In response to the first post, I think you're a little paranoid, Nate. Houston wasn't "supposed to win that series." The league doesn't work that way. Bad calls get made but Stern didn't give orders to the refs to force a Game 7. Yes, it SEEMS like some teams get calls more than others, but great teams win no matter what. Everybody here said no one had a chance against Lakers in 2011, the league wouldn't allow it, etc. And what did Dallas do? They ignored any perceived favoritism and SWEPT the Lakers.

 

But if Dame hadn't hit a miracle shot with .9 seconds left, the refs WOULD have forced a game seven.

 

Huh? How could they force a game 7 after the shot is missed?

 

The Clippers are gentlemen? That must be in a parallel universe.

 

If they NBA rigged games it would be to help the Blazers win games this series. They'd get much better ratings from the series going 6 or 7 games.

 

Isn't it fair if everybody gets screwed over at some point?

 

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The refs had just helped give Houston the lead. Lillard hit that shot to win the game/series. If he had missed, we would have been going back to Houston.

 

If Clippers are so good at getting calls, how did they choke against Houston and how have the Clippers never been to WCF Ever?

 

If I remember correctly, Parsons tipped in a shot to get the lead. What did the refs do and why did they allow it to be so close?

 

If real life was like NBA Officiating:

Police Dispatcher: 911, What is your emergency?

Joe Schmoe: Help! My house has been robbed! You gotta send someone out right now. They took nearly everything I own! Please help me!

Police Dispatcher: Okay sir calm down, Could you give me your home address please?

Joe Schmoe gives the police dispatcher his address, it is in a low income neighborhood.

Police Dispatcher: Well no wonder you got robbed. That is a terrible neighborhood. Why don't you live in one of the nicer neighborhoods with the gated communities? If you had lived there you might not have gotten robbed sir.

Joe Schmoe: What? It's all I can afford to live right now

Police Dispatcher: Oh, so you don't make a lot of money then sir.(Dispatcher says it more as a declaration rather a question.)

Joe Schmoe: What does how much I make and where I live have anything to do with what happened to me? I was robbed and most of my belongings are gone! A crime was committed! Please send the police so I can file a report!

Police Dispatcher: Sir you should have expected being robbed due to the neighborhood you are in and done more to safeguard yourself from something like this. My advice to you is get a better job and make more money so you can move to a better neighborhood where this won't happen to you. Have a great day sir.

Police Dispatcher hangs up the phone.

Joe Schmoe: What the fuck!!??

*Part 1 of 2

 

Blazers have been getting screwed for years. Sheed had enough and dipped and won a ring. Aldridge had enough and dipped to san Antonio. Thats why I love lillard. I think he sees the refs hate portland but he says fuck it id rather play for the red headed stel child team than have shit handed to me.

Thats why as much as I hate reggie miller I still give props. He stuck it out with another team that isnt among the chosen ones with big kia contracts, knowing he had pretty much no chance of ever seeing a title.

If it wasnt for the blazers, id stop watching the nba. To me the blazers are like stone cold Steve austin, sure I know the wwe is fake, but the texas rattle snake is a bad ass.

Bottom line I think is certain players land contracts and im pretty sure nba doe its best to put them in tbe spotlight for the advertisement money. They've tried desperately to push anthony davis they just cant get that whole shitty team to compete. I think the nba is biased, not completely rigged, but deffinitely try to push certain teams/players/ads/agendas/stories. Soon it could be as horrible as the wwe became.