The NBA is not rigged
May 28, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Chauncey Billups, Denver Nuggets, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
Every year you hear the same thing about how the NBA is rigged so it will be a final with Boston and L.A. or a final with LeBron and Kobe or Shaq and Tim Duncan and every year we all fall for the same story line.
But the NBA is not rigged. There, it had to be said. Well, there were those times when my Pistons were, uhh, let’s save that story for another time and just stick with the NBA is not rigged, even though we know it is.
“The Lakers paid $50,000 to win that game. They got their money’s worth,” said a Denver player, not wanting to be identified for fear of retribution from the league.
Was the outcome rigged? I refuse to believe it was.
The 16 field-goal attempts the Nuggets missed during the fourth quarter had much more to do with the defeat than any of the 30 personal fouls called against Denver by the referees.
Los Angeles coach Phil Jackson and the Lakers organization were fined $50,000 by the NBA for complaining about the calls in Game 4, won decisively by the upstart Nuggets.
George Karl thinks something stinks
When Kenyon Martin wanted to complain to the press about the referee’s favoring the Lakers, Chauncey Billups came to the rescue.
“Don’t let the league take your money,” Denver teammate Chauncey Billups told Martin.
Photo source Newscom
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