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http://www.nypost.com/seven/07202007...rray_weiss.htm
All i have to say is wow.
I blame the ref for us wining 23 games in 05-06 lol
All i have to say is wow.
I blame the ref for us wining 23 games in 05-06 lol
This is one blow to the league that is going to take years to overcome.
Ladies and Gents, the NBA has bottomed out.
The time is right for other basketball leagues to form. I hate to use this example, but its found in professional wrestling.
WCW started as small market promotion no one knew about until Ted Turner bought it and threw tons of money at familar WWF wrestlers. After the WWF steroid scandals, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Bret Hart all left for WCW and blew it out of the water.
If a new league was formed I'm sure greedy-ass NBA players wouldn't think twice to join a league where they would get paid more. The first player to "jump ship" , Stephon Marbury comes to mind
Never has their been a better time for a new league. Myself, and I'm sure many others are probably sick to out stomachs after hearning about this...especially after that suspect NBA playoffs.
What do you guys think?
Thats as good of an idea as the XFL....
Joey Crawford is probably the ref in question! He's always throwing people out of games for no good reason. Think about it.Now that was funny...
But seriously...pay the ref's more money....and bring back Joey Crawford...but this is just one bad apple...hopefully this does not turn out to be an epidemic.
Let's not blow this outta proportion... it was one ref working for organized crime... same thing happened in baseball in the 20s (I think)...
besides... NBA refs work in teams of 3... it would be kinda hard for one ref to affect the outcome so badly without getting the attention of the other 2... unless the other 2 were paid off too...
i blame refs for nothing... since shitty refs exist in every sport and in every league... it's f***ked up... but it's life...
the scary part is they said these were finals games... i wonder if it was game 1 or game 4 of a sweep? maybe games six and seven from 94? lol...
This is one blow to the league that is going to take years to overcome.
Ladies and Gents, the NBA has bottomed out.
The time is right for other basketball leagues to form. I hate to use this example, but its found in professional wrestling.
WCW started as small market promotion no one knew about until Ted Turner bought it and threw tons of money at familar WWF wrestlers. After the WWF steroid scandals, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Bret Hart all left for WCW and blew it out of the water.
If a new league was formed I'm sure greedy-ass NBA players wouldn't think twice to join a league where they would get paid more. The first player to "jump ship" , Stephon Marbury comes to mind
Never has their been a better time for a new league. Myself, and I'm sure many others are probably sick to out stomachs after hearning about this...especially after that suspect NBA playoffs.
What do you guys think?
Let's not blow this outta proportion... it was one ref working for organized crime... same thing happened in baseball in the 20s (I think)...
besides... NBA refs work in teams of 3... it would be kinda hard for one ref to affect the outcome so badly without getting the attention of the other 2... unless the other 2 were paid off too...
i blame refs for nothing... since shitty refs exist in every sport and in every league... it's f***ked up... but it's life...
the scary part is they said these were finals games... i wonder if it was game 1 or game 4 of a sweep? maybe games six and seven from 94? lol...
really tho, u can hardly compare the officiating in baseball or any other sport to that of basketball....there are so many close calls, so many fouls that i dont see until the replay is slowed down, so many blocks that were on the way down that were called goal tending that i thouhgt were clearly blocks until its in slow motion....i dont like it, and i dont think it will affect this 08 season