NBA conspiracy theories resurface after LeBron-Durant no-call

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?
 

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.

Kevin Durant powers Oklahoma City Thunder past James LeBron's Miami Heat

Durant scored 17 of his 36 points in another nightmarish final period for James and his team, a storm that overwhelmed the fire, and the 1105-94 Oklahoma City Game1 victory over Miami on Tuesday night.

Teaming Russell Westbrook to outscore the Heat in the second half of their own, Durant was first struck in the head-to-head matchup James, who has seven points in the fourth quarter, and was helpless to stop a three-time league scoring champion.

Westbrook turned a poor-shooting start to finish, 27 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds in the Thunder, encoding a strong finish in the third period gave the Thunder a good leader.

Durant took over from there.

Scoring in almost every way possible, Durant finished 12 of 20 from the field and added eight rebounds. He and Westbrook outscored the Heat 41-40 over the last two periods, shows that maybe this time will be a criminal offense to win championships.

James 30 points out, most all of his 11 finals games, but only one basket in the first 8:15 of the fourth, when the Thunder took control of the game that all towed, but the last few seconds of the first three quarters .

James averaged just three points in the fourth quarter, the Heat six-game loss at Dallas last year, taking all the heat in the Miami final error. He was a good, Durant was just right.

Game 2 on Thursday night in Oklahoma City.

Dwyane Wade had 19 points, but shot just 7 of 19 of the Heat, and Shane Battier provided some rare offense by scoring 17 points, and this is the high season.

Coming to the end of a small lineup in the third quarter, the Thunder improved to 9-0 at home season. Defensive ace Thabo Sefolosha helped defend during the return of James Thunder, Durant reducing the burden, so he could concentrate on scoring.

And now, nobody does it better.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said his team, pushed seven games against Boston in a grueling conference finals the Heat finally won on Saturday, but this quick turnaround time. But he ran out of gas against the young Thunder, the main players in all 23 and younger, and it looks like if they could keep playing every night.

James and Wade both bent over, hands on his knee during a stop in about seven minutes left. Durant kept pouring it, racing down the court, to throw off a fast break dunk and added a 3-pointer that pushed to 87-81, 1-2 six minutes left.

The Heat got four points, but hit two quick baskets Durant and Westbrook is a 10-point lead in a 3:35 to go.

Even the rapid rise toward the top of the Thunder, who started 3-29 in 2008-09, in the first season after moving from Seattle. Fans are clearly included in the final 'arrival in Oklahoma City, where cars, buildings and even dyed her hair fans seemed to be in some way, or orange or blue.

Fans standing until the first basket of the Thunder did not have to wait very long baseline jumper Durant split in 70 seconds he created the first three shots, including two 3-pointer, but his teammates missed the first six attempts of an early hole.

Durant made sure that they were fine in the end.

Both superstars tried to downplay individual matchup, insisting the team had Durant and James insists that he does not care about the argument for best player in the game.

It was James' support to enhance the cast more to start, the Heat hitting five of six 3-point attempt jumped a 29 to 22 people after one quarter. Chris Bosh Spoelstra to keep a reserve, the role of going back to nine games in the absence of tense abdominal muscle. wise decision, because Battier hit his first three 3-point attempts in the opening minutes spark strong start in Miami.

Durant took only one shot in the second quarter, and it was not until nine minutes had elapsed. By then, leading the Heat built as large as 13 points, keeping in or near double digits most of the period preceding the Thunder cut to 54-47 at half time.

The blue sea looked like a scene from the court last year in Dallas, where James struggled so badly, if you care about most.