Is the NBA/Stern CORRUPT?

Damn you Stern!

I love the Blazers, but I have to admit I’ve been getting into college ball a lot more recently. David stern looks a lot like Vince McMann, and it’s hard to root for something when you know it’s all scripted.

On the dunk contest, I think McGee got robbed. Those were some very creative dunks. I bet any guy in the contest could have jumped over the front bumper of a KIa. Andre Miller could have even done that.

…..that Blake chose to jump over the Official Car of The NBA.

It sucks, because they had a great dunk contest going until they pulled out the choir, car and Kenny.

ITS STILL REAL TO ME *******!

…It’s Corruptastic!

Detroit and San Antonio would never have made the finals.

The only reason they won the 1st two titles was because a foul was no longer a foul for the “BAD BOYS”.

and the scary thing is that $tern doesn’t even have to try and hide it. Baseball or Football would never have accepted this much blatant corruption from a commisioner.

Or at least gotten the big three to go to the third largest market in the United States in Chicago.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that every piece of evidence is further proof of the conspiracy, even if it contradicts the conspiracy. Is the NBA completely up and up? Probably not. It’s run by people who don’t always make the most reliable decisions. There are certainly things that could have been done better. But to believe in a conspiracy like the one being proposed is madness.

I’ve brought up this argument from G. K. Chesterton a while back.

…[I]f a man says that he is the rightful King of England, it is no complete answer to say that the existing authorities call him mad; for if he were King of England that might be the wisest thing for the existing authorities to do… Nevertheless he is wrong. But if we attempt to trace his error in exact terms, we shall not find it quite so easy as we had supposed. Perhaps the nearest we can get to expressing it is to say this: that his mind moves in a perfect but narrow circle. A small circle is quite as infinite as a large circle; but, though it is quite as infinite, it is not so large. In the same way the insane explanation is quite as complete as the sane one, but it is not so large.

Likewise, I cannot prove that there is no conspiracy in the NBA. But what a small world it would be if it were true. Those other 23 owners, including Paul Allen, in the dark for so long. Blinded by promises of fairness and equality. Blinded by the belief that they can really compete. Not raising a fuss, but quietly being content to lose money on teams that cannot ever really compete.

There cannot be only a conspiracy. Conspiracy and a perfect mass incompetence are both necessary. So I don’t buy it.

Like I said, are there little things that may skew to a few particular teams? Probably. All men are subjective. But corruption and conspiracy? Let’s give the purported “victims” a little more credit than that.

But the league has grown under his watch. I think the next 10 years are his true legacy though. I assume there is going to be a large reduction in national interest in the NBA due to small market fans finally becoming fed up with his BS, star-happy system. Of course, we Blazer fans are the pride of the league, filling our arena up every game. The thanks we get for our loyalty to the NBA is a big kick in the groin. Thanks, butt-head.

totally fed up with all the cheating going on and the whole Star treatment thing. This years All-Star game is the first that I have intentionally missed and after watching the ridiculous results of the Dunk contest, I will not be watching that anymore.

The only games that I do watch are when the Blazers play otherwise I don’t bother unless there isn’t anything else on. While Stern has done a great job selling the NBA as a product, he has striped away all the integrity that goodsportmanship demands. The officiating is laughable really and its not like that will ever change unless Stern steps down. They can make all the excuses they want but there is no way that a 5th place team in the Conference has ZERO players going to the All-Star game unless its all rigged. LMA should have gone before the likes of Duncan, Love or Griffin. Thats a Fact but only in a league where you get what you deserve. This league is about your Star power, it has nothing to do with if a player deserves it or not. So they should just stop saying that players like Randolph or Ellis don’t derserve to go to the All-Star game because their teams don’t have good records cause they clearly don’t care. Why else did Love and Griffin get the nod? Blake was already in the Rookie- Sophmore game plus the Dunk contest so he would have been involved already but Stern got greedy and in the process lost himself a pretty devout fan.

The entire SuperStar mentality and Big Market favoritism is ridiculous!

What is it?.. 8 teams in 30 something years have won a title while 9 teams in Baseball and Football have won a title in the last 10 years!!! Big market teams…and the marketing machine run by Stearns… are destined to continue to treat teams like us as the Washington Generals until something changes. As it is right now only 4-5 teams have a legitimate shot at a Championship. The rest of us are just fodder for the chosen ones.

Please…Please… Retire Stearns and let someone with integrity take over the league!

The NBA is such a BAD product. I’m getting really tired of the absurdity of it all. If it wasn’t for the Blazers I wouldn’t even think about watching the NBA. At least In the WWE, there is no secret its fake.

 “The NBA! Where big market bias happens!”