Yea, and if the Cavs would have won, then it would have been....The NBA wanted LeBron in the finals and it couldn't be any clearer.

Not quite. Lebron had no chance in this series. He was playing by himself.

I have been calling a Celtic Lakers final since Garnett was traded.

The NBA can only do so much to fix games. Sometimes a player steps up and hit a crazy shot that the refs can't fix.

If you watched this game, the Cavs were getting more help from the officials than the Celtics.

This was a 1-point game with 1 1/2 minutes left. Only someone who either doesn't understand the game or has an extremely active imagination would say this game was fixed.

I suppose you missed all the tripping the Celtics were doing and how KG stood around in the paint. Or how KG pushed everyone and was never called for the foul.

You are going to get those same calls ignored against the Pistons. Just wait. KG is going to be able to do what he wants and so is Pierce and in the end it will decide the series.

Stern ordered the Cavs to miss a few rebounds near the end so the Celts could get some 2nd chance points.

You might have something here, Max. I'm pretty sure Stern ordered Big Z to shave his head, as well.

It's a bad poll. I only got 14 people to acknowledge my dementia.

This thread was supposed to be whimsicle.
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Originally Posted by ESPN - Prosecutors say Donaghy should get break for fessing up to gambling - NBA
In the letter, dated May 8, prosecutors asked a judge to consider giving Donaghy a break on his sentence to reward his "substantial assistance" in an investigation that resulted in the indictment and guilty pleas of a professional gambler and a middleman, both former high school classmates of the referee.
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Donaghy, who pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to charges of betting on games he officiated, told FBI agents “league officials would tell referees that they should withhold calling technical fouls on certain star players because doing so hurt ticket sales and television ratings," the document said.

Donaghy claims he was told that two refs who were “company men” acting in the interest of the NBA conspired to extend a playoff series in 2002 to a seventh game.

The referees allegedly ignored flagrant fouls committed by the team that needed to win. They also reportedly called "made-up fouls" against the other team which led to the ejection of two of their players. The team favored by the refs won that night and the next game to win the series Lakers/Kings 2002 WCF Game 6 ? Qoute G26
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I didn't expect this stuff to start coming out until around Donaghy's sentencing next month. I hope Stern's now pooping his pants in the middle of his Celts-Lakers Finals.

The following sounds like complete BS to me. Just how powerful does Stern think he is?
Donaghy says 2002 playoff series rigged - NBA - MSNBC.com

This article names another playoff series in 2005. Houston vs. Dallas.


Ex-NBA referee: playoff series manipulated - NBA - Yahoo! Sports