The Donaghy scandal grows.

I'd buy that. It's just that the hatred that's directed at the NBA is sort of amusing, considering the other leagues have just as many foibles, unlikable characters and fundamental flaws. Although obviously none have had a Donaghy-level scandal. Speaking of Kings-Lakers...

http://www.82games.com/lakerskingsgame6.htm

 

If the NBA is fixed, why aren't the Knicks in contention for the title every year?
Or are they really so bad that not even corrupt officials can help them?

 

There's different levels to "fixing things"

Will they make sure the Knicks win a title? No. Will they fix the lottery so they can get Patrick Ewing? Maybe...

Will they dictate the outcome of a series? No, or not directly. Will they do everything they can to make sure a highly-rated series goes seven games? Maybe...

There's a big difference there.

David Stern is very much an evil genius. He's also not stupid.

 

"Who cares if it's fixed? There has to be a winner."

- the late Huggy Sr., degenerate sports gambler extraordinaire.

 

So you're saying if the Knicks suddenly won the title every year, it might be a little too obvious?

 

Perhaps just a bit...

Stern also loves to punish teams that piss him off. Just guessing here, but the Knicks have probably done that once or twice or 100 times during the Isiah Thomas Error, I mean Era.

I don't think he cares who wins, he just wants the Lakers, Celtics or Bulls in the finals in most years.

 

What I don't understand is why people feel the need to compare scandals on a relative basis.

I really don't care whether fixing games or juicing on steroids is worse. They're both terrible, and saying one is worse sort of dismisses the other.

 

I don't think one being worse than the other lessens something like taking steroids or stealing signals...

But we're talking about referrees, the people who are supposed to make the game fair, conspiring to fix games to benefit the league.

In my opinion, there's nothing worse.

 

And I'm still not seeing, based upon what we know now:

1) how the NBA could have done more than it did;

2) how the NBA, as opposed to Donaghy is fixed; or

3) why David Stern is the most corrupt commissioner in sports

 

I don't like to see this, but a part of me is actually enjoying it because of Stern's incessant holier-than-thou attitude.

 

Honestly, it's up to you guys on the front line of the sportsworld to give this issue traction.

I've wondered aloud for quite sometime why this hasn't been given the hoopla it deserves since its the biggest issue in all of sports in the last 20 years IMO.

We saw more traction around dress codes and other crap than issues swirling around what looks like the integrity of the game itself coming into question.

 

ESPN did a pretty good job whacking the NBA in its referees' knees on OTL on Sunday (no thread? seriously?), except it was on too damn early for most of America. Hopefully, the OTL stuff will be regurgitated on SportsCenter at some point.

NBA officiating has to be seen as big a joke as WWE officiating at this point, at least from the general public's perspective.