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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.
And of course stars win championships! That's what makes them stars. If they're the best player on their team and win championships, they're considered stars. If Kobe doesn't win, you can just as easily say the league wanted the stars Garnett, Pierce, and Allen to win their first championship. Either way, you can argue for conspiracy. It's an easy argument to make, but it doesn't hold much water. Keep in mind plenty of stars haven't won championsions...Barkley, Malone, Ewing to name a few.
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. 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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