if the NBA is rigged, why are the Heat up 3-1?

[jzek]

:confusedshrug:

[Bandito]

Because it is rigged.

[gts]

The Heat are up 3-1 because they are across the board a better team than the Pacers.. Deeper, more experienced and better coached. Anyone who says different is just making excuses

[NBAplayoffs2001]

The Heat are up 3-1 because they are across the board a better team than the Pacers.. Deeper, more experienced and better coached. Anyone who says different is just making excuses

How the Heat fans like it. :cheers:

[FLDFSU]

:confusedshrug:

People are such morons. The biggest ratings potential ever...Lebron v Kobe had never happened yet the NBA has time for LeBron to face the Spurs twice. :facepalm

Are people really this retarded? We could of had Miami vs New York in the ECF instead the NBA rigs it for the Pacers?

We have a final four the last two years that does not include a single large market. Miami, Memphis, San Antonio, Oklahoma, and Indiana.

Why in the world would Stern or Silver want those teams?

[Knoe Itawl]

People are such morons. The biggest ratings potential ever...Lebron v Kobe had never happened yet the NBA has time for LeBron to face the Spurs twice. :facepalm

Are people really this retarded? We could of had Miami vs New York in the ECF instead the NBA rigs it for the Pacers?

We have a final four the last two years that does not include a single large market. Miami, Memphis, San Antonio, Oklahoma, and Indiana.

Why in the world would Stern or Silver want those teams?

The whining has nothing to do with what makes sense, and everything to do with a lot of clowns not being able to accept that a team they hate is winning. So it has to be about refs, and collusion and blah blah blah. Anything but having to admit that the best team, led by the best player is winning.

[AT9]

People are such morons. The biggest ratings potential ever...Lebron v Kobe had never happened yet the NBA has time for LeBron to face the Spurs twice. :facepalm

Are people really this retarded? We could of had Miami vs New York in the ECF instead the NBA rigs it for the Pacers?

We have a final four the last two years that does not include a single large market. Miami, Memphis, San Antonio, Oklahoma, and Indiana.

Why in the world would Stern or Silver want those teams?

Miami isn't a large market?? What do you consider large, like 3-4 cities??

Anyway, larger markets don't necessarily mean more viewers...look at teams like the Denver Broncos, St. Louis Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, etc. Green Bay is Probaby the best example. The league would want the teams/players that would generate the most interest. Market size is one factor but not the only one.

[Derka]

If the NBA was rigged, markets like Indiana and San Antonio would never get this far. Ever.

[sfballa13]

The large market talks are bullshit

Last year was one of the highest rated finals ever as Lebron going for his back 2 back title was facing a team that had destroyed his Cavs team in his first NBA Finals. Duncan going for one last championship and Lebron cementing his legacy with the repeat championship

Now no matter who Miami faces the story line is great:
- If it is the Spurs: Duncan and Pop back for one LAST run, with a chance to avenge last year's terrible Game 7 defeat and stop Bron's 3 Peat
- If it is the Thunder: Durant, league MVP, against all odds wills his team to the Finals for a rematch this time without Harden of the 2012 Finals. Can the NBA's new blood (KD) dethrone the King and stop the 3 peat)

These storylines write themselves and have nothing to do with big markets.

This isnt Indiana vs Spurs of the past. Spurs playing the Heat actually means something same goes for OKC vs Heat.

Now if OKC can come back to beat the Spurs after getting torched the first two games then you can say THAT side of the Finals is rigged.

Everyone that knows basketball and has been following the NBA realizes that the Thunder were EXTREMELY LUCKY (read rigged) to get out of round 1. They were down 15+ in game 7 against a Grizzlies team that was playing an injured PG and WITHOUT their star PF in Zbo. Yet they somehow come back and win.

Then in round 2, one of the most rigged rounds in recent history, OKC was handed a ticket to the WCF with some of the worst reffed games since 2005 Pistons vs Spurs (remember NBA didnt want the Malice at the Palace team to go back to back that's terrible press for the league) and 2006 NBA Finals Heat vs Mavs.

Is the NBA rigged? Yes. But that has nothing to do with the Indiana series. Their team just plain and simple SUCKS. George is extremely overrated. They have a terrible coach who cant control the emotions of his team and consistently sits Evan Turner instead of finding a use for him off the bench. Imagine how Pop could use Turner if he was coming off the bench, he would be a legitimate weapon, instead on Indy he sits and sulks and gets DNP after DNP. And mind you they traded their former leader for this garbage. Indiana deserved to lose in round 1 and barely got out of round 2. They cant hold a candle to this Miami team and dont deserve to take this series to 6. All they have been doing since day 1 of the regular season is talking shit and saying how much better than the Heat they are. This has been one of the worst collapses in NBA history and they deserve every bit of it esp Hibbert who talked the most shit only to see himself revert to one of the worst big men in the league.

Regardless of all this I am praying for Spurs vs Heat because that will actually be a true series. If OKC goes to the Finals they are winning it period. No way NBA lets their MVP go home empty handed. It's an opportunity for Silver to brand another savior of the league as Lebron and Kobe age.

[Derka]

Apparently we all need cryptography backgrounds to decipher ISH posters now.

[robert_shaww]

Because it is rigged.

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[NBAplayoffs2001]

The large market talks are bullshit

Last year was one of the highest rated finals ever as Lebron going for his back 2 back title was facing a team that had destroyed his Cavs team in his first NBA Finals. Duncan going for one last championship and Lebron cementing his legacy with the repeat championship

Now no matter who Miami faces the story line is great:
- If it is the Spurs: Duncan and Pop back for one LAST run, with a chance to avenge last year's terrible Game 7 defeat and stop Bron's 3 Peat
- If it is the Thunder: Durant, league MVP, against all odds wills his team to the Finals for a rematch this time without Harden of the 2012 Finals. Can the NBA's new blood (KD) dethrone the King and stop the 3 peat)

These storylines write themselves and have nothing to do with big markets.

This isnt Indiana vs Spurs of the past. Spurs playing the Heat actually means something same goes for OKC vs Heat.

Now if OKC can come back to beat the Spurs after getting torched the first two games then you can say THAT side of the Finals is rigged.

Everyone that knows basketball and has been following the NBA realizes that the Thunder were EXTREMELY LUCKY (read rigged) to get out of round 1. They were down 15+ in game 7 against a Grizzlies team that was playing an injured PG and WITHOUT their star PF in Zbo. Yet they somehow come back and win.

Then in round 2, one of the most rigged rounds in recent history, OKC was handed a ticket to the WCF with some of the worst reffed games since 2005 Pistons vs Spurs (remember NBA didnt want the Malice at the Palace team to go back to back that's terrible press for the league) and 2006 NBA Finals Heat vs Mavs.

Is the NBA rigged? Yes. But that has nothing to do with the Indiana series. Their team just plain and simple SUCKS. George is extremely overrated. They have a terrible coach who cant control the emotions of his team and consistently sits Evan Turner instead of finding a use for him off the bench. Imagine how Pop could use Turner if he was coming off the bench, he would be a legitimate weapon, instead on Indy he sits and sulks and gets DNP after DNP. And mind you they traded their former leader for this garbage. Indiana deserved to lose in round 1 and barely got out of round 2. They cant hold a candle to this Miami team and dont deserve to take this series to 6. All they have been doing since day 1 of the regular season is talking shit and saying how much better than the Heat they are. This has been one of the worst collapses in NBA history and they deserve every bit of it esp Hibbert who talked the most shit only to see himself revert to one of the worst big men in the league.

Regardless of all this I am praying for Spurs vs Heat because that will actually be a true series. If OKC goes to the Finals they are winning it period. No way NBA lets their MVP go home empty handed. It's an opportunity for Silver to brand another savior of the league as Lebron and Kobe age.

over branding a three peat champion like Lebron? Don't think so. Either way I think the Heat will win regardless because Silver is clearly rigging games for marketing. Let's be honest, the Memphis vs OKC series was sort of rigged and I like OKC. The fact that Randolph got suspended and PG didn't get suspended first round for his incident is unacceptable :no:

[Rose'sACL]

Miami isn't a large market?? What do you consider large, like 3-4 cities??

Anyway, larger markets don't necessarily mean more viewers...look at teams like the Denver Broncos, St. Louis Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, etc. Green Bay is Probaby the best example. The league would want the teams/players that would generate the most interest. Market size is one factor but not the only one.
are you retarded? comparing NFL teams to NBA teams....lol

[UK2K]

People are such morons. The biggest ratings potential ever...Lebron v Kobe had never happened yet the NBA has time for LeBron to face the Spurs twice. :facepalm

Are people really this retarded? We could of had Miami vs New York in the ECF instead the NBA rigs it for the Pacers?

We have a final four the last two years that does not include a single large market. Miami, Memphis, San Antonio, Oklahoma, and Indiana.

Why in the world would Stern or Silver want those teams?
The NBA was pushing that PG vs Bron agenda harrrrrdddddd. Besides, NYK would have been swept without some serious officiating help.

[AT9]

are you retarded? comparing NFL teams to NBA teams....lol

What? Let me spell this out:

One poster said small market teams wouldn't make it if the league was rigged bc the league wants lots of viewers/more money.

I responded by pointing out that big markets aren't necessarily the best for ratings.

I used them of examples of "small" markets with very popular sports teams. Point being that sometimes the fan base size or storyline trumps market size.

Get it?

[freshperry]

Seriously... haters cant have it both ways. You're telling me that NBA was fixed? So the Ray Allen Game 6 shot was all planned out? Come on man... Maybe there is "preference" such as superstar calls and etc but actual rigging? You understand that billionaires own these teams right? They would not let that shit slide if their team is on the short end of the stick.

[jzek]

Series should be closer towards a 7-game series if it was rigged...