Donaghy: 2002 NBA Playoffs series fixed

Because the NBA Finals finish after my bedtime?

 

Mizzou, I don't understand what kind of coverage you think this should be getting? espn.com has a ton of columns and stories about it, as do other sites, and I've seen a lot of newspaper columns about it. The Daily News has four stories on it today. Is CNN supposed to go into white-girl-has-disappeared mode and have it on 24/7? Should the president be addressing it? Should the New York Times publish a special section? It's getting a lot of coverage. And comparing it to spygate, again, there was actual evidence there. The videotapes existed. Jay Glazer got the tapes and they were aired to the public. The evidence here is that Tim Donaghy heard something.

 

I thought it was the highschoolers and one and dones that were ruining the game?

 

Hey I admitted I was wrong.

You still standing behind the three not overtaking the NBA game?

 

Yes, I stand behind that. It is not "overtaking" the NBA game (I believe it IS in college, though). Players are taking AND MAKING a higher percentage of 3-pointers than they once did because defenses have changed, because of the abolition of the old illegal defense rules allowing more zone-like defenses today, and because players are making a slightly higher % now. But it's not a situation where it's the focal point of most offenses like it's become in college, and it's certainly not the league's "undoing."

 

You think the fact teams are allowed to play zone defense has anything to do with that?

Look at college basketball, now that has been completely taken over by the 3.

 

JC, since you brought it up, 67-162 is what Kobe, Garnett and Odom are shooting in the Finals.

Pierce and Allen are 37-77.

 

You might be right there, and I could see a scenario where this could be true. I don't want to get into the whole steroids in baseball issue, but you know how it "saved the game", rescued the ratings, bla bla bla...

I could see a scenario where the NBA's TV ratings are in the toilet so someone orchestrates a grand plan to get teams in the finals that are TV-friendly. Boston and LA, anyone?

The problem is the ratings for the finals are still way off where they should be. And if this is true, the NBA will be relegated to figure skating-type ratings now and for the foreseeable future.

 

The last thing I want to see is a 7-0 center jacking the three with a hand in his face.

That happens at both levels.

I agree the college three should be moved back to where the NBA three is now.

Boy, I hope it is not already there. ;D

 

It's now a conspiracy when the No. 1 seeds in each conference make the finals? Talk about the NBA having a tough challenge. If the best teams in the league make it to the finals, it's rigged. If a series is not a sweep, it's because the league is desperate for the TV revenue and it's rigged. So the only way these playoffs wouldn't have been a conspiracy is if the Hawks and Jazz had met in the Finals and both had been 12-0 on their way there. But that would have been a conspiracy too, because according to some, the NBA knows that every few years it has to let small-market teams into the finals, so the general public doesn't get suspicious.

 

STG is right, but I would be interested how Crawford found his way back into the Spurs series.