The hot and Oklahoma City will have two days before Sunday's NBA Finals' Game 3rd No off days, but for sports conspiracy crowd that looks at the NBA the way the John Birch Society looks at the past 70 years.
For conspiracy buffs, the NBA Finals ranks somewhere between a midnight movie showing of Capricorn One and two week holiday at Area 51 Goodyear blimp might as well be a black helicopter. Each official group call, Zapruder film treatment and be ready if such an analysis reveals a questionable call that would fall in line with the prevailing theory of NBA commissioner David Stern as the master puppeteer.
Oh and can I get a witness disappeared about this for Thursday? Played long murmurs that the NBA wanted to make sure at least a five-game series broke into howls when Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant does not get the benefit of a fault call on LeBron James Durant short baseline jumper that could have tied the game in the last seconds. Had they been a receiver and a defensive back down in the NFL, the James drew an illegal contact flag that can say so much about modern NFL serving as NBA playoff whistled.
And what Durant and Serge Ibaka Clean double-block Heat forward Chris Bosh, who had ruled goaltending, gifts two points to the heat? Clear evidence of skullduggery at a crossroads, comes the groans from some message boards and Twitter.
Like the Heat forward Shane Battier sudden improvement from three-point field can only mean one NBA-operative in Butte help each other image using satellite systems league purchased from the former Soviet Union. Is not it obvious?
For conspiracy buffs, the NBA Finals ranks somewhere between a midnight movie showing of Capricorn One and two week holiday at Area 51 Goodyear blimp might as well be a black helicopter. Each official group call, Zapruder film treatment and be ready if such an analysis reveals a questionable call that would fall in line with the prevailing theory of NBA commissioner David Stern as the master puppeteer.
Oh and can I get a witness disappeared about this for Thursday? Played long murmurs that the NBA wanted to make sure at least a five-game series broke into howls when Oklahoma City's Kevin Durant does not get the benefit of a fault call on LeBron James Durant short baseline jumper that could have tied the game in the last seconds. Had they been a receiver and a defensive back down in the NFL, the James drew an illegal contact flag that can say so much about modern NFL serving as NBA playoff whistled.
And what Durant and Serge Ibaka Clean double-block Heat forward Chris Bosh, who had ruled goaltending, gifts two points to the heat? Clear evidence of skullduggery at a crossroads, comes the groans from some message boards and Twitter.
Like the Heat forward Shane Battier sudden improvement from three-point field can only mean one NBA-operative in Butte help each other image using satellite systems league purchased from the former Soviet Union. Is not it obvious?
No foul on Durant
All of this ignores that government officials really wanted to bury Oklahoma City, they would have polluted out Durant for a fee, when he crashed into Battier on a fourth quarter drive down the track. Instead, just got the close call right (I did not think Battier had his feet before Durant's start).
Also, if the NBA has been orchestrating things over the years for the benefit of their TV partners, how did San Antonio, the best sports franchise, the U.S. refuses to embrace, ending with four NBA titles in the past 14 seasons? Galactus in the league office can not stop Spurs fantastic four of Parks, Coach Pop, Manu and Tim Duncan?
I know these conspiracy nuts. My sports-loving mother while she lived in Detroit, insisted when Detroit's Bad Boys performed Michael Jordan's Bulls in Game 7 of the 1990 Eastern Conference final on orders from the NBA. Otherwise, my mother is a semi-reasonable person.
Some of this is NBA fault. Their lax security allowed referee Tim Donaghy to do everything he should not get busted for it, then get a platform to feed the Fix is in the crowd. In the NFL, makes an official his house up for sale since the league was not expecting it and he gets a phone call the next day: "Is everything okay with you"
The NBA is facing the unveiling of the draft lottery results for a half hour show, but refuses to show fans the real drama of the balls actually chose. There are people who, trembling hands clung credential holders of tickets and filled Lotto cards, Clocks Lotto numbers drawn into the tube. But the NBA will not show us the simplest event guaranteed to draw ratings.
ESPN Jim Rome asked Stern bluntly this week if the lottery was set. Stern responded by dropping into verbal eye-rolling mode, do funny sport in Rome.
Stern conveniently ignores that make the lottery out of the limelight ensures deep suspicion, no matter how many independent auditors and team representatives see it. Hey, can be in a content reps the farce in accordance with the theorists.
Ridiculous, but ... many years of hoop fans may remember the American Basketball Association used to keep his entire draft in secret because the teams had to cut deals to put the best draw on the best places for each franchise (ie, University of Kentucky star Dan Issel settlement with Kentucky Colonels).
CAVs got top pick
How different does it look from the ever-dying Cleveland suddenly becomes relevant by wrapping up the No. 1 overall pick year everyone knew it would be Akron-born LeBron James? Or former NBA-owned New Orleans gets the No. 1 overall pick months after the New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson takes the team away from the NBA hands.
Of course it is random. Probably. Like the officiating staff ... right? The mass post game reaction puts added fun to the following sports these days. But conspiracy fans beware - they are tracking your keystrokes.
All of this ignores that government officials really wanted to bury Oklahoma City, they would have polluted out Durant for a fee, when he crashed into Battier on a fourth quarter drive down the track. Instead, just got the close call right (I did not think Battier had his feet before Durant's start).
Also, if the NBA has been orchestrating things over the years for the benefit of their TV partners, how did San Antonio, the best sports franchise, the U.S. refuses to embrace, ending with four NBA titles in the past 14 seasons? Galactus in the league office can not stop Spurs fantastic four of Parks, Coach Pop, Manu and Tim Duncan?
I know these conspiracy nuts. My sports-loving mother while she lived in Detroit, insisted when Detroit's Bad Boys performed Michael Jordan's Bulls in Game 7 of the 1990 Eastern Conference final on orders from the NBA. Otherwise, my mother is a semi-reasonable person.
Some of this is NBA fault. Their lax security allowed referee Tim Donaghy to do everything he should not get busted for it, then get a platform to feed the Fix is in the crowd. In the NFL, makes an official his house up for sale since the league was not expecting it and he gets a phone call the next day: "Is everything okay with you"
The NBA is facing the unveiling of the draft lottery results for a half hour show, but refuses to show fans the real drama of the balls actually chose. There are people who, trembling hands clung credential holders of tickets and filled Lotto cards, Clocks Lotto numbers drawn into the tube. But the NBA will not show us the simplest event guaranteed to draw ratings.
ESPN Jim Rome asked Stern bluntly this week if the lottery was set. Stern responded by dropping into verbal eye-rolling mode, do funny sport in Rome.
Stern conveniently ignores that make the lottery out of the limelight ensures deep suspicion, no matter how many independent auditors and team representatives see it. Hey, can be in a content reps the farce in accordance with the theorists.
Ridiculous, but ... many years of hoop fans may remember the American Basketball Association used to keep his entire draft in secret because the teams had to cut deals to put the best draw on the best places for each franchise (ie, University of Kentucky star Dan Issel settlement with Kentucky Colonels).
CAVs got top pick
How different does it look from the ever-dying Cleveland suddenly becomes relevant by wrapping up the No. 1 overall pick year everyone knew it would be Akron-born LeBron James? Or former NBA-owned New Orleans gets the No. 1 overall pick months after the New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson takes the team away from the NBA hands.
Of course it is random. Probably. Like the officiating staff ... right? The mass post game reaction puts added fun to the following sports these days. But conspiracy fans beware - they are tracking your keystrokes.
