let me start by sayin this, while i maybe be a diehard cleveland fan, im MAN enough to admit when another team out plays mine. but so far no ''TEAM" has out played mine. three paid off officiating crews have. look call me bitter or biased or whatever the hell you want. but before yoou do read this, which was taken from wikipedia's article on david stern:
During 2007 playoff series between the Phoenix Suns and the San Antonio Spurs, Spurs guard Bruce Bowen made a blatant attempt to injure Suns Amare Stoudemire and also committed an unnecessary flagrant foul on Steve Nash but received no finesor suspensions. However, David Stern approved a suspension for Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw, two of the Suns best players, for stepping off the bench after an incident on May 15 where Spurs Robert Horry shoved Steve Nash into the scorer’s table. It is clear that the actions taken by David Stern greatly benefited the Spurs, despite the fact that it was Robert Horry who knocked Steve Nash off of the court. David Stern has received criticism for issuing these suspensions that aided in the Spurs' winning the series.
and it don't even mention the fact that in the same game tim duncan stepped off the bench and and was given nothing. now i haven't reasearched to deeply into the nba's rules yet. but, i believe the nba rules state plainly that, any player who steps off the bench,(meaning crosses the out of bounds line onto the court will be suspended for atleast one game REGARDLESS OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES for which the player did so.
so if this is true then why wasent duncan suspended? gee i wonder.
look to all the spurs fans out there, you will of course say that this is all ####. or whatever but think about this:
last night in the final second of the game lebron james was BLANTANTLY and FLEGRANTLY fouled IN THE PROCESS OF SHOOTING a 3 point shot, no whistle blew. everyone else in the entire world including the commentators if you were paying attention, knew it was a foul, but not the refs. no not the refs who have now made it official that this ENTIRE PLAYOFF TOURNAMENT from the beginning of the first round was fixed for spurs to win.
even people out side of the sporting world knows it. the wikipedia article excerpt proves it.
look to all the spur fans: of course like i said before you gonna say this is all bs and your gonna say all kinds of other stuff, but you would the spurs are your favorite team. even if bowen would have walked up and sucker punched lebron james in the jaw last night you STILL would say it was bs cause you're spurs fans( or i the case of some of you, bandwagoners) and your team can do no wrong. at least I can admit that my team played bad basketball for the most part, but it still don't change the fact that the spurs DIDN'T get this by themselves they had help, from both the refs and the nba itself.
say what you want about me and the cavs( and the suns and the jazz too) but atleast our teams play with 5 players like there supposed too, not 7 and a commissioner
I like both pro and college football and basketball and i like the mlb. im a die hard cleveland fan but that doesn't mean that my opions are biased and i dont suffer from favortism. if another team does good i admit it (usually). i say what i think and i voice my opinions and if people don't like it well thats just fine.