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Obvious. NBA fans have known this for years. Soon he'll mention the Dwayne Wade 20 free throw quarters in the 2006 Finals. Rogue-referee my ass.

1 series in 2002 was extended to a 7th game, you know which one it was.

NBA.com: PLAYOFFS 2002

i read about that today....those motherfackers! i remember watching that game and i literally cried when sacramento lost(that was my team back in the day)That was so wrong of those officials....

This series hurt me more than any I could remember in recent years b/c the Kings were playing such beautiful basketball compared to everyone else...Lakers included, who only used to have Shaq bull his way over everyone else.

I particularly remember the elbow Kobe hit Bibby with...and nothing was called. Absolutely disgusting.

And now David ################ing Stern want to just dismiss it as ole talk and grandstanding...everybody knew the officiating in that series was ################ing horrible. Everybody.

That's where you are wrong, a foul on Bibby was called.


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Donaghy is nothing but a desperate criminal trying to get a lighter sentence or some sort of publicity out of his demise.

1. If the NBA is fixing games then they are doing a poor job. A majority of the teams in the finals are small market teams and the ratings of the NBA finals over the last ten years shows it.

2. Donaghy said that he HEARD that two of the referees that he knows as "company men" were asked by the NBA to make sure there is a game seven. So basically a criminal making baseless allegations... so lets believe him...

That the officiating was poor in that game and in many others is the real problem.

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Well if that is the case or not of his intent, he surely used some good examples. Cause everyone talked about that game/series as being weird b4 he said anything..up to politicians. When Van Gundy said what he said about Yao being targeted, I believed him right away...now it is being backed up by this guy. I doh know..but I kind of believe him.

Why Vlade couldnt just grab that f.uckin rebound instead of tipping it?

Word right!! He basically passed it.

Well yeah... that was one of the worst officiated games ever. No question. But intentional conspiracy to make the Lakers win or send it to seven games? Nah...

As for the Yao thing... well the NBA DID target Yao and they admitted to it. Marc Cuban complained about Yao's moving screens through legitimate channels. The NBA made sure the official new about the illegal moving screens and asked that they clamp down on it. The question now is did Van Gundy and the Rockets organization know that the NBA was going to clamp down on it? Did they warn them? That would be the question...

Oh yeah... I forgot about that, he fouled Kobe's forearm with his nose.

Stop repeating the same bullshit you hear Stern saying. How is this allegation supposed to help him get an easier sentence??

it could be true but i ain buying it. its just speculation to spark conspiracies

Why Did Van Gundy get fined 100,000 at the time if the league admitted this?

To hear him tell it it was because of the way in which he went about it...going to the press.

Hmm aight. I thought at the time they wanted him to give up the source that he had that told him this information. So to me they weren't necessarily agreeing to his accusations. Either way..

Because if he can prove that he was just ONE currupt cog in a system of curruption they will go for the bigger heads.

Lemme ask you this... how is putting the Spurs and Cleveland and New Jersey and leaving the Knicks and Celtics out of any meaningful playoff games in the last ten years helping the NBA? If they are fixing games they are doing the worst job possible.