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If the NBA is rigged, why have the finals over the past 20 years been so BORING. There's been just 2 seven games series in the last 20 years vs. 4 sweeps. Statistically speaking, if there's two evenly matched teams, the odds are 4.6 times greater that there will be a seven game series than a sweep. And yet there's been twice as many sweeps!
The two seven game series were the Rockets-Knicks the year Jordan was playing baseball and the Spurs-Pistons - two "boring," defensive minded teams that don't get high ratings. And the "boring" Spurs have won four times in the past decade. You're telling me that the NBA is competent enough to rig games for decades w/out getting caught, but is not competent enough to have any really compelling finals series, until maybe this year.
Sure there's some corruption...mostly Donaghy...but until there's any tangible proof other than stories from a corrupt ref, let's not get carried away. Refs have a very difficult job, so of course some people are going to be unhappy with the officiating every game...the easy thing is to say the refs are corrupt. It's easy to buy into any conspiracy theory...after all they don't require any actual proof, just fabricated, fanciful stories. It's harder to use logic to differentiate between the very small percentage of instances where there actually is some sort of conspiracy and the much larger percentage of instances where it's just people blowing smoke out their arse.
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