The NBA is rigged for the L*kers

Proof. Pudding. i mean recently the Portland game, the Kings game the other night and the Wolves game...really really shady.


[video=youtube;YZatX_6i5WY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZatX_6i5WY[/video]

dunno why this isn't embedding. but whatever click through.

 

srsly

http://sportstwo.com/threads/233683-Lakers-2013-Playoffs-conspiracy

 

Everyone said that in 2011. But Dallas didn't whine or make excuses. They stayed focus on the task and swept the Lakers. We could do it too someday if we don't bitch whine and make excuses.

 

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SORRY BRAH, I WAS CLOSING A MULTI MILLION DOLLAR TRANSACTION SO I DIDN'T GET TO READ ALL THE POORLY WORDED THREADS ON THE FRONT PAGE.

 

also it's not embedding because of the s in https

 

THANKS BRAH. MOGS, PLEASE MERGE. THX.

 

Okay I just watched the video. Kobe is garbage. He fouls Rubio and said it should be a no call. Then he jumps up and down after not being touched at all? And he gets the call? Garbage.

 

Mark Cuban has been fined over $1 million for complaining about refs over the years. It paid off in 2011 for him with an NBA title. Remember the 'defense' the Mavs were able to play against the Blazers in the 4-2 series? It was like watching the Pistons from the '80s.

 

Garbage. I don't understand how Lakefs fans can continue to deny the help they're getting from the zebras/NBA.

 

STOMP

 

Stern's grand, er, last stand.

 

Just once I would love to see a team come out of nowhere to win the whole thing..... but when was the last time that happened in the NBA?

 

No. 1 Seeds

1. 1948 Baltimore Bullets

2. 1950 Minneapolis Lakers

3. 1951 Rochester Royals

4. 1952 Minneapolis Lakers

5. 1953 Minneapolis Lakers

6. 1954 Minneapolis Lakers

7. 1955 Syracuse Nationals

8. 1956 Philadelphia Warriors

9. 1957 Boston Celtics

10. 1958 St. Louis Hawks

11. 1959 Boston Celtics

12. 1960 Boston Celtics

13. 1961 Boston Celtics

14. 1962 Boston Celtics

15. 1963 Boston Celtics

16. 1964 Boston Celtics

17. 1965 Boston Celtics

18. 1967 Philadelphia 76ers

19. 1970 New York Knicks

20. 1971 Milwaukee Bucks

21. 1972 Los Angeles Lakers

22. 1974 Boston Celtics

23. 1975 Golden State Warriors

24. 1976 Boston Celtics

25. 1979 Seattle SuperSonics

26. 1980 Los Angeles Lakers

27. 1981 Boston Celtics

28. 1982 Los Angeles Lakers

29. 1983 Philadelphia 76ers

30. 1984 Boston Celtics

31. 1985 Los Angeles Lakers

32. 1986 Boston Celtics

33. 1987 Los Angeles Lakers

34. 1988 Los Angeles Lakers

35. 1989 Detroit Pistons

36. 1990 Detroit Pistons

37. 1991 Chicago Bulls

38. 1992 Chicago Bulls

39. 1996 Chicago Bulls

40. 1997 Chicago Bulls

41. 1998 Chicago Bulls

42. 1999 San Antonio Spurs

43. 2000 Los Angeles Lakers

44. 2003 San Antonio Spurs

45. 2008 Boston Celtics

46. 2009 Los Angeles Lakers

47. 2010 Los Angeles Lakers


No. 2 Seeds

1. 1947 Philadelphia Warriors

2. 1949 Minneapolis Lakers

3. 1966 Boston Celtics

4. 1968 Boston Celtics

5. 1993 Chicago Bulls

6. 1994 Houston Rockets

7. 2001 Los Angeles Lakers

8. 2005 San Antonio Spurs

9. 2006 Miami Heat


No. 3 Seeds

1. 1973 New York Knicks

2. 1977 Portland Trail Blazers

3. 1978 Washington Bullets

4. 2002 Los Angeles Lakers

5. 2004 Detroit Pistons

6. 2007 San Antonio Spurs

7. 2011 Dallas Mavericks

No. 4 Seeds

1. 1969 Boston Celtics

No. 5 Seeds

None

No. 6 Seeds

1. 1995 Houston Rockets

No. 7, 8 Seeds

None


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Well that just cements it then. Only one team in the bottom four seeds has ever won it, and they had Hakeem and Clyde.

 

Look no further back than 2011. The Mavericks had lost in the first round in 2010 and was picked to lose to us in the first round. No one and I mean NO ONE picked the Mavs to win it all when those playoffs started. The Lakers were the odds on favorites to three peat and the Mavs were legendary chokers. And they only had one current All Star. The Mavericks came back from Roy's miracle game, they SWEPT the Lakers in dominating fashion (in a year that loser Andre Miller said the Lakers couldn't be beaten so he wanted to avoid them), they beat the Thunder in 5 games, and disposed of LeBron's Heat in the Finals despite being down 0-1 and down 15 points with 5 minutes to play in Game 2, and after winning that, falling behind 1-2 and still coming back to win the series. And to make it even more improbable, Dirk didn't dance around or strut around. He quietly excused himself to the locker room. This was probably the most spectacularly out of nowhere title win of my lifetime and from round 2 on, I loved it.

 

I don't know if being the #3 seed in the Western (better) Conference with a superstar like Dirk is exactly "coming out of nowhere". Surprising, certainly. Shock the world, they did not.

 

Especially since they had a pretty good team that year. Tyson Chandler, Caron Butler, Jason Terry, Jason Kidd, Barea, etc etc etc. That was a good team.

 

Way to take his quote out of context. His exact quote was "The Lakers are going to advance (past the first round), regardless of how well you play, just because of the way the market is." They did Exactly that so calling Andre Miller a loser because he called out the NBA is just asinine.

 

I took a flight last year, and the guy sitting next to me was an NCAA referee who did a stint in the NBA. The things he told me were beyond depressing about officiating.

It's really too bad that Adam Silver (the Waylon Smithers to David Stern's Montgomery Burns) is going to be the new Commissioner. If it became more like the NFL and less like WWE, I think the sport as a whole would benefit.

Here's the best rule change you could make: Discontinue the "personal" foul. Make all fouls team fouls so no player has to alter the way they play just to stay in the game. There can be a penalty at five team fouls, an increased penalty at seven or ten team fouls, so games don't just become foul-a-thons.

It's BS when you beat a team by getting their star in foul trouble and benching them. It robs the fans who wish to see that player as well. The worst part is that both the NBA and the refs know people come to see specific players, so they're incentivized to keep them in the game. Moreover, the players know it, so they foul with impunity and dare the officials to bench them.

After that, officials would be able to call games much more straight up. Will we ever get over big markets vs. small ones? Perhaps. It would at least be a start.