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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The NBA is the closest professional sports has come to WWE right down to very suspicious draft lotteries. You only have to google "NBA rigged" and all sorts of articles pop up. How legit are they? It's debateable but where there's smoke theirs fire and under David Stern there's been constant accusations by executives, media, officials and fans that there has been rigging in the NBA.
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Originally Posted by OILFAN #81
NBA has fixed series for years. Tim D (referee) is in jail for fixing the Lakers-Kings Conference finals. He and his crew came out and said they fixed that series. He got jail time for it.
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Huge difference between shady refs, poor reffing, stars getting calls and possible (with 0 evidence) draft rigging and a league actively rigging play-off series.
I think the NBA is as garbage as it gets with giving teams and players (KoMe) calls but I would say there is about 0% chance that they have rigged play-off series and had nothing come out of it.
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Originally Posted by Pointman
I'm not going to go into it, as it's off-topic, if it makes you happier, replace NBA with RSL. RSL was very well-known for fixing games and they still had sweeps.
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Huge difference between the NHL and RSL.
And as you mention the RSL is well known for it, the NHL has had 0 reports and 0 evidence of it happening ever. Odd that they would rig a series now that results in one of its biggest stars getting ousted when they could have rigged other series that would have brought them much more money.