Having followed this idea here, for 3 years, and laughted at the posters that bought into it. It's time to see if there is any validity to it.
-----Media likes big markets for sales of TV time and advertisments in radio and print.
----Stern likes to be liked and likes to be smoozed the paying customer- THE media.
----The League - referees - are tools with small minds that when indocternated with hints of who should win, subconsciencly see fouls that aren't there.
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Witnessed and substaniated by this years playoffs. Magic wasn't ready for prime time. The Jazz should've held home court. How blatant was that?
-And I'm sure you all have seen officiating that didn't make since.
-Forcing 7 games for the Atl hawks???

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One question. If there was a conspiracy when why have no refs come forward? Refs are fired every year and yet no one has ever come forward to break the news rhat they were ordered to favor this or that team.

Seems like someone by now would have come forward. One would think that at least that Donoghe guy would have told us.

If there is a consipiracy then the CIA needs to hire Stern as a consultant because Stern would have accomplished something that no one ever has.

There was a lot of complaining about Stern's decision in the Phoenix-SA series last year to suspend Amare, but if it was all part of his master conspiracy, why did he make a decision that benefited the boring/low-ratings/no-media-star Spurs, while simultaneously damaging the hot/sexy/fun-to-watch Suns?

There's been some pretty bad refereeing of late, but for Boston fans in particular to complain about conspiracies (which some of them are, after Cleveland got a few calls their way late in Game 6) is absurd. The league, its sponsors, the media, EVERYONE (except fans of other teams) are foaming at the mouth for a Lakers-Celtics finals. But that doesn't "prove" that everything is being fixed to ensure that outcome.

Oh He!! yeah.

But it's done with rule changes.

What is funny though is for the most part the best players keep being the best players, and the best teams keep being the best teams.

No....

No........

I am now wondering if a Kobe Vs LeBron matchup isn`t looking more favorable to the media, sponsors and NBA.

Not after LeBron vs. Spurs was the lowest rated Finals EVER. Any series with Kobe and the Lakers would bound to be higher rated than that, no matter who the opponent is, but they definitely all still want to be able to hype the mystique and cachet of Lakers vs. Celtics.

Lakers and Celtics would be nice, however, the so-called marketing genius of Stern and his cronies would have folks saying - the Boston who?

Kobe vs LeBron would be bigger. Remember, this is the NBA where the individual stars are bigger than the teams. Arguably the top two players in the league, would draw a huge audience, perhaps more than Boston/Lakers.

No........

Why ask a Yes-No question in a poll and have 3 choices, all of which are "yes"?