This Is Why People Think The NBA Is Rigged
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Do you think David Stern rigged the 1985 draft?
No
proly
Yes
☝ well that cleared it up lol
Yes
Even if it isn't rigged, officiating over the last few years has been unacceptably inconsistent. If the NBA wants to keep the league credible in the eyes of their fans, they need to do a better job at training, standardizing and overseeing their officiating crews.
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The refs are simply following orders from the nba league office. They can’t have completely competent refs cause if they did they would have no one to blame for bs calls
The thing is the league is on it too.
The last few years? More like the last few decades.
Unless the ratings drop dramatically because of the officiating, the league won't do a thing about it
27 free throw attempts in a quarter is obvious bias. A team back then probably averaged 23 points a quarter
*game
no it was a quarter
The one thing I would like a deeper look at for that quarter was if Hack-a-Shaq was in play. He shot 17 FTs for that game.
check how many of those free throws were by shaq. teams used to forcefully foul him down the stretch because he was so bad.
@@TEAMGETHELPopen your fucking eyes it’s Q4
Their sponsors are literally legalized bookies. Every other commercial is about gambling and the announcers do promos about sports betting every break after a quarter ends or during a live timeout.
The gambling shit needs to die. We all know that. The increase in gambling has changed the everything.
Also youtubers who have gambling sponsors are shit, yes boy is part of that. And others.
How are we in the future allowing people to spam addiction at people still? How about no. Alcohol cigarettes, and gambling need to go away as a sponsor. That ain't right to people who have only one life. Stop fucking with their minds.
Then we can get actual games without referees betting on the side. It's clear they have a side agenda at times. No one is that fucking blind. Even players. Looking at you MICHAEL JORDAN.
FACTS 😂🎉
When bibby fouled kobe with his face, you knew.
When bibby fouled kobe with his face, you knew.
@@awilliams5007 Did he do it twice?? LOL
Ya know, it only takes a couple of "bad calls" at crucial moments of any game to disrupt a team's momentum and change the outcome of the game.
That's any sport
@@scallen3841 And so true, nonetheless!
Yep. No need for a big discrepancy.
All you need to know about Tim Donaghy is that the FBI went to David Stern, showed him their evidence, and told him that there were more refs that they wanted his cooperation to help uncover. David Stern then held a public press conference and outlined what evidence the FBI had against Tim Donaghy, destroying the rest of their investigation and putting the other refs on notice.
Scott Foster is a senior NBA official.
Yea no doubt in my mind the it was more top down than one greedy dude. Like he was covering his ass
How could stern hasn't received some legal repercussion from the fbi?
@@antokarman2064 that's a good question,
What would they charge him with?@@antokarman2064
@@antokarman2064because what he did was technically not illegal. The FBI should have had him sign an agreement beforehand but stupidly they trusted him.
Don’t forget Ayesha Curry calling the games rigged and the fact there is an nba ref that has beef with Chris Paul. This is unacceptable officiating by the NBA and I’m glad you are bringing awareness to it. There needs to be a change to the integrity of the NBA
It's always been rigged from the start but the issue is Adam Silver has made is obvious for even a casual audience to spot it.
She said it was rigged because curry choked in the 2016 finals
@@Yaboi00000 nah it was the refs. stop choking on lebron's meat and accept he got help from the refs
@@wizardkap not really Draymond green should have been suspended the entire playoffs when he kicked Steven Adams in the dick
Ayesha curry calls the game rigged whenever Steph loses a game, she’s just the average fan lol. Just because you CALL it rigged when you lose, doesn’t make it rigged 😂🤣
When I saw Tim Duncan get a technical foul while sitting on the bench (not even standing) for laughing, let's just say I had my suspicions. 🤔
He worked the refs all game long, and he was probably worse than Luka. Remember Luka had a fan rejected, so why shouldn't Tim have started a nuisance from the bench? Bench fouls are rare (except on coaches, if you call that a bench), and for the record, I don't think Luka has been blessed with one of those yet. It just seems Tim was just loving bitching at them all the time, while it seems Luka don't care when he's not in there. It seems most complaining players save it for when they're in the game, and Tim too, but he was just chronic, so it doesn't surprise me he got called on the bench too. Would love to see a whole bench T'd up once and give the other team like seven T shots.
Would you say that Tim was the primary Spurs bitcher back then? I think Gen Nose Bleed was pretty high up there.
Particularly egregious in that Kings-Lakers game--Mike Bibby (Sacramento's best player during that series) was elbowed by a Laker. No call. Bibby's nose started bleeding. The rule at the time was that if there was blood, the team is charged a time out. The Kings were charged with their LAST time out.
The Heat-Mavericks finals (Wade before LeBron got there) was so clearly rigged. The refs just kept calling fouls on the Mavericks. They weren't allowed to play defense against Wade.
And frickin' LeBron. He just gets every call. Flop-offensive foul. Drive to the basket-foul on the defense. The refs have coddled him since he was a rookie.
"This is why people think the NBA is rigged."
Nah, people just dont think people KNOW it's rigged.
This channel is with them from past vids alone
Exactly
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Why would the NBA allow such a thing? Jews.
Funny thing about Lakers FT disparity is that they are at the bottom in attacking the paint but still, the Ft disparity next to the 2nd is 200+.
True, but the Lakers are 2nd at rim frequency, 5th in post-ups and 3rd in possessions finished by the roll man. AD and Lebron are 3rd and 5th in the league with shot attempts within 5ft or closer.
@@pekie5533 and bros still tryna justify it
@@pekie5533 2nd, 5th, 3rd in the categories you listed, yet the lakers lead the number 1 teams in those categories by 15+ ft a game. Sounds like your evidence is further proof of the rigging.
@@darylfindley7551 There aren't a lot of teams who are better combined in those categories and have more players than the Lakers with two players taking more shots from 5ft and closer.
@@darylfindley7551 Maybe this will simplify it. The BEST NFL team usually have an average offense + defensive ranking of around 5... meaning, #1 in offense and #9 in defense, or #4 on offense, #6 in defense.
Ranking 2/3/5 out of 30 almost guarantees you that you are #1 overall when looking at the average of those 3 stats.
Don't forget that phantom foul called for Kareem (on Bill Laimbeer) in the Finals of 88 too. Since we're talking about The Lakers "always getting advantages."
What about the NBA using frequencies and technology in their game ball? When you shoot a basketball, it’s supposed to stay at a constant rate when tou shoot the ball and when it is on it’s way down. But in the NBA, the hall speeds up and pulls towards the hoop on certain shots to make the ball go in. Just slow it down and put it in slow mo 0.25x. You’ll see what I’m talking about.
well damn, i thought i heard it all before this one.
ig this proves jordan is still the best
Sometimes the balls just spins and spins around the rim, like I played basketball the ball just doesnt spin like that around the rim, and sometimes the ball just wont go in like the rim is double rimmed, theres definitely something going on there.
@@horrifyingcatwhat
@stolensentience I GUESS THIS PROVES JORDAN IS STILL THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER OF ALL TIME SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE A MAGNET IN THE BALL
That’s why I don’t really watch sports anymore, the older i have gotten, the less I believe that it’s fair and balanced. The referees have ultimate control over the game and you (the player or coach) can’t question anything or else you get fined and (or) suspended. It’s a bunch of BS. That’s why nowadays I just check out box scores and if my team wins I might watch the condensed version on TH-cam or not at all.
Look, I stopped trying to understand NBA officiating around 2013. I have no idea what a travel is anymore, what an illegal screen is, what a foul in motion is, what a tech is, what taunting is... No clue. I can describe you basically every offensive and defensive system. I can explain the most obscure trade exceptions and cap rules. But what a simple shooting foul is? No clue! That changes from posession to posession, from player to player.
So is it rigged? As long as there are no clear rules and no accountability for refs, if they call things differenty, I have to asume it is. Other sports like Football (the real one that is played with the foot) get it done. If the NBA cant, they just dont want to.
NFL can be rigged though, from the Brady era Patriots getting favorable calls an no calls like the no calls of them holding Colt's WRs, to the blatant pass interference no call in the playoffs against the Saints.
Well I can help on the travelling thing at least. A travel is taking more than 2 steps while in possession of the ball without dribbling and without being named LeBron James.
Don't you love the "step-throughs" and moving screens?
That's what the rules are for. To make things be able to go either way. They always have an excuse. Blatantly blow a call and it's I'm sorry. Change the rule next year.
LeQueer, LeMedia, LeNarratives, LeRules, LeRiggedLeague
Watching the Timberwolves try defending Embiid earlier this season was crazy. You can’t touch him, 18 free throws by himself. While the box score looks comparable, the Wolves 3 big men had 2 infractions in the first 5 minutes. The game was over immediately…
lol you showing reeves in the video made me remember the warrios vs lakers matchup last year that whenever he drives to the basket he just needed to fall and a foul was called. It was so frustrating and the fakers fan (became a lakers fan because of lbj) kept saying the warriors only has small amount of freethrows because they only kept shooting threes but when I watched the game and they were fouled inside and outside the 3pt line and the ref was so blind.
Bill Cooper said that every major sport in America is 100% rigged. I have to completely agree. I watch too much wrestling to know better smh
WWE, or the actual sport?
@@ADHDDistracts In before "The Lions" become an actual NBA team. 🤣
If it is wwe, i think he’s referring to the storylines and theatrics for us to see parallels. Which is an exaggeration but lakers vs gsw playoffs last year. Come on, they couldnt cover the disparity against the nuggets but they tried
That's why I don't respect the dubs 😂
If sports were rigged you would never see 49ers vs Taylor Swift's Boyfriend in the Super Bowl.
As a Timberwolves fan, I can attest to lottery manipulation. From 89-2020, the Wolves were in 22 lotteries from 90-2019. Not once did they move up; they kept their spot 10 times and moved back 12 times. The odds of that happening, according to statisticians who worked for insurance companies, was one in thousands.
I thought same too.
Up till this moment I keep asking how did that happen.
Jesus
@adampepin9944 .. You need to find mathematicians that have above a 3rd grade education.
@@JohnCarterIsMyNamemockers seek wisdom but never find it npc
Mavs have never one time improved their spot. I think Heat also. Mavs wanted Luka at 3rd pick and had 3rd worst record. But again they fell and it cost them a quality 1st rounder to get back to 3rd.
Many sports are probly fixed/rigged but the average person doesn't care and will still watch because most people don't care enough about honesty and would lie and cheat to get ahead.
Great video bro. I'll never forget watching that lakers kings game and was beside myself. This is coming from massive fan of basketball from Toronto, Canada. So I had no bias in that game, however I was cheering on the kings because I thought they had great chemistry all
Season as a team. Not just 2 dudes.
Adam Silver is a snake.
He's 🌈
You mean Adam Slither?
he looks like Tom Marvolo Riddle.
He’s a pencil head
Nobody is saying the obvious 🔯
That Khawi laugh killed me every time
Pretty sure that’s Brtitney Griner…
Yeah, so original.
here's another theory. The envelope doesn't have to be frozen. You just have to make sure all of the envelopes say New York Knicks inside. Extremely simple and please be aware that an envelope won't stay cold for very long which raises the risk that it doesn't work
There could be metal plate in there...lol
cold enough long enough is good enough. but i'm sure there's plenty of ways to rig shiit. CHEATER$ ARE ALWAY$ LOSER$ TO ME
Question: If the NBA is rigged... what about the Super Bowl?
I can see it as of late.
Everything.
It’s all rigged, especially now that it’s legal to bet on games. All just entertainment.
NFL is even more rigged
This year is the worst too
lakers should be taken away, they are historically favoured and the warriors and half the nba deserve those wins
Y'all gotta stop with this Steph hating. His shooting is the reason they had trouble rigging during his career. They actively try to constrain him. Whoever thinks Steph is the problem is trying to deflect from Lebron. Look at the all time free throw attempted list and tell me what you see. If the league was trying to uplift Steph, he would not be ranked in the lower 100’s for free throw attempts. The man is being scape goated in several videos and comments recently bc Lebron has his minions in the media at work. Jmo
Facts even his trash teammates are being overrated for the last 5seasons
Facts Steph legit greatness showed last night against the suns
Sheesh had me like damn gotta give it up to him👌🏿
Hits a 3 pointer with 1.7 seconds left in the game to win.
There will NEVER be another Steph freakin Curry.
@@greatbingus He's great but has no marketable charisma or exciting style of play.
@@greatbingus Don't get me wrong. I do not doubt Jokic's greatness, and I'm a big fan of his.
However, as you may know, there was a lot of criticism in the sports press for his two MVP awards (which I thought he fully deserved). I just think he's overly boring to a lot of people, and he is clearly not someone the NBA is pushing as a highest profile superstar. It's the same way Tim Duncan could not serve as the face of the league either, despite his own greatness.
can you give us a list of all the music you used in this vid ?
Don’t forget to include
How teams nowadays are constantly manipulating outcomes by benching players for “rest” / “knee soreness” or some other bullshit. They easily get away with not putting the best players on the court as they’re trying to manipulate the standings.
Best evidence is literally the last 3-4 games of the NBA season, where nba teams are holding players back . So ridiculous. They literally devalue these games and expect fans to pay for it.
I’m done with the NBA . So garbage.
I agree, and I think that the Vegas numbers and sports betting is likely a much bigger influencer on games, particularly officiating, than we realize.
Oh definitely the amount of bets that lose for just one point, one rebound or one assist is proof, like how can this sportsmen can live with their conscience
ITS NO THINKING!! THE WHOLE MAINSTREAM SPORTS WORLD IS RIGGED!!!
100p. Anyone who can't see that is a fool. I realized in 2018 and now it's so obvious that I've taken a step back from blind fandom
@@dicktipton5912 I haven’t faithfully watched any sport since 2011. When I saw Lebron and them come back in 2016 to beat the Warriors I was like yeah right!!! Draymond was kicking the crap out of Steven Adams and nothing happened. He swipes at Lebron and gets a one game suspension? Also the Warriors go 73-9 and the Cavs beat them? That whole finals series was dedicated to Lebron. First and foremost, the Warriors should’ve never even made it themselves. The Thunder had them and we’re up 3-1. That whole year was just insane. That season there really was the icing on the cake! I was like this league is so rigged and so is football. I genuinely would rather watch little league play through high school before I watch any type of professional sports. The Sixers are my team, but I’m not even rooting for them. I just can’t when the NBA is the way it is. It takes so much fun away from the game I use to love.
@@Ronday30 could you point out to anything that suggests the 2016 finals was rigged though? both teams had similiar FTs. i just think the Warriors didn`t play at 100% while the Cavs played out of their mind. Lebron and Kyrie both scoring over 27ppg while Steph only managed 22. Klay and Draymond both under 20ppg. Warriors had more turnovers and less offensive rebounds. The Cavs won game 7 by just 4 pts. In Game 7 Steph only made 4 out of 14 from 3pt and finished with 17pts`while Klay made just 2 of 10 3pts and finished with 14pts. they didnt lose because it was rigged, they lost because they choked.
out of all the crap in sports, that is the least rigged thing ever lmao @@Ronday30
@@melloyello6464 to each it’s own. We’ll live🙏🏾
If think about the fact that the NBA is a business and it is selling entertainment as a product, then it actually becomes very clear that there is a very high chance that the NBA is indeed rigged.
Why is that?
Perhaps rigging the NBA makes the product (entertainment) better for everyone to enjoy and in the same time maximizes revenue(s) as one of the important KPIs of any business. So there is a nice incentive to try influence some aspects in order to gain benefits.
Better questions to ask could be:
1. Is the NBA having a decreased rate of revenue growth?
2. And why is that?
Also, another alternative might be to just rig it better. :D
Aye bruh… that randomly inserted Kawhi laugh took me out 😂😂😂 4:46
i saw a thing today saying that the refs are going to start wearing sponsored patches because "the refs are getting a lot more screen time than they used to."
..........yeah that's what I was thinking too.
Life long laker fan here. I will never forget that game 7 in sac. They were cheating for us for sure
I'm a bulls fan. I didn't care who won. But that game turned me against the Lakers. Even though it wasn't their fault.
And that Portland lakers series was fishy to me too
I’ve also heard rumours about the bucks Sixers series from 01
Dang bro, much respect! You know how many Lakers fans you can talk to, show them this, and they will still find some way to dismiss it. Salute to you for being able get out of your fandom and to just be honest about what you saw. 🫡
@@geraldchristopher8319 same here I never liked the Lakers again after watching that series. And to be honest I never respected that 3peat either, it just felt fake and unearned.
The Bulls this year lost their 2nd rd pick for talking to Lonzo Ball about joining the team before he was officially a free agent. However, James back when he was joining the Heat contacted Bosh about joining him during the season, he was still under contract, and talked Wade into staying again he wasn't allowed to do that either. He was a representative of a team under contract so James had no right to contact any players under contract. Even when the season ends the players are still can't be contacted until a certain amount of days had past. James didn't wait until the season was over even. This isn't a rule that has changed, in fact every sport including NASCAR has a rule that no one under contract can be approached by any individual from another team about joining them, player, coach or management.
Overseen by Ernst and Young!!! The same guys who were the accountants for Enron! NICE!!!
That was Arthur Anderson
I think with all the betting commercials and how the NBA are promoting it, there is something definitely funny going on, and this time they can't get away with it as easily because of social media, and stat junkies now days. Everyone is watching and keeping track and now we have to hold the NBA accountable, this was an excellent video thank you
Thank God because I love to sports bet and I would be extremely discouraged to find out that everything is rigged. I’m glad that the NBA is under a magnifying glass with stat junkies and sports bettors paying close attention. Let the players play and let the bettors bet, simple.
@@franktkf4022when there is too much money involved, honesty cant stand
😂🎉@@franktkf4022
@@franktkf4022how many times youve lost by one point, one rebound or one assist? I tell you I had Adebayo to do 8 rebounds this mfka never even came close to the rim to do his job, the big superstars are in it too, they get told what to do especially in primerime games
Ping pong ball lottery drawing would be an absolutely HUGE ratings bonanza. Only possible logical reason it's not televised is the league head office sees MUCH more value in determining where top prospects go.
Just look how huge the NFL draft is. Showing the drawings would be a big event.
Of course. It would make it harder to rig. Anyone who thinks the nba isn’t heavily rigged by the refs and the draft isn’t rigged is delusional. After Lebron left Cleveland they won the 1st pick 3 out of the 4 years! The odds of that are astronomical. Bordering on impossible
@@Romanus- Do you think that was to set up LeBron's return?
I think the league set up the pelicans. They actually owned the team and had a chance to sell it but wanted to make sure they got the most out of it so they promised the new owner a #1 pick and they got Zion out of it.
KARMA has injured Zion ever since.
@@fieryjalapenos4442
Legalized sports gambling that's promoted by the league is the ruin of the NBA.
There is a player or two in each team who help rigging the game, mainly the superstar of the team with few exceptions where there is a player who rigs other than the superstar,
As a Pistons fan, so many situations come to mind... 88 finals, Wade shooting over 20 FTs in the 4th, etc. And yes, both Sacto and Portland were stripped of their shot at a title by the refs against the Lakers in the early 2000s.
Yeah but this joke wants to shit talk pistons we still got chips when this bs is rigged 04 was the last chip not rigged refs hated Detroit. Sheed couldn’t even look these cowards in the eyes without a tech
steve Nash and the suns also got screwed
good timing for this vid , did anyone see the Knick game against Rockets , 2/12/24
Great video but it ended just as I hoped it was really getting started!
It's the most obviously rigged sport on the planet.
No, that's school.
@@colt1903school is not a sport my guy😂
I was thinking the nfl and nba
Both professional and non professional boxing are rigged is an even more crazy way.
Even European football is rigged certain years (not all years), BUT it is not rigged the same way it is with the NBA. In NBA it's the NBA itself which makes the NBA rigged. For european soccer it is corruption, corrupted refs in particular.
bro said school was the most rigged sport..what the f*** you on 😂
Rigged? No. Huge bias concerning certain players? Absolutely. I still can't get over how L.A. shot 43 free throws in one game. That's just crazy.
If the bias affects the outcome, it's rigged. Sorry to break it to you.
That Lakers/Kings game...was that the game where Robert Horry hit the winning shot at the last second?
The way you can tell is the difference between random and a pattern. If it’s a pattern you know the fix is in. Like betting on a player to get so many points only to see him ejected in the 1st qtr.
RIGGED!!!! Its business. Its about bling bling, and every team must take turns to be contender or NBA champ. Warriors got their bonus 2 seasons ago. At present whatever effort Warriors do-will go to naught. Just watched the toe to toe previous games of Warriors. Example: if Warriors almost gonna win a game then unexpectedly-you'll hear a LOUD WHISTLE(s). I think its too frustrating to Warriors players esp. to those exerting exceptional effort every game.
When a team doesn't get free-throws unless the Refs want them to, we know the entire NBA is crooked and a disgrace. It's just another politically run, nasty organization.
Currys won like 4 rings, was in the finals 6 times.... If they did not want the Warriors winning, the LA Clippers would have beat them, Houston would have beaten them, OKC would have beat them
Steph Curry never get foul calls it's crazy
People acting like he gets star treatment need to see what he goes through in a game they literally be scratching and pulling on his jersey all game and the refs let them get away with it just because most of it happens offball doesn't mean they're not fouls he should probably average like 10 FTs A game
The dude that gets paid MILLIONS AND MILLIONS AND MILLIONS by living at the three point line? Maybe he'd get more foul calls if he'd stop flopping on every shot when the defender breathes in his direction.
If you think Curry flops too much or that since he 'lives at the three point line' he doesnt deserve free throws then:
1. You CLEARLY have not watched even a single game of his.
And 2. You probably need to wear a helmet when you poop.
He , just like Jokic, gets pretty much moles ted every night by defenders who fear his shooting. But he rarely gets enough free throws. Just watch the 2022 Finals and see...
@@michaelelliott3209 Flopping? You probably talking about Austin Reaves, not Curry.
@michaelelliott3209 R u stupid? U clearly haven't watched any of Curry's games. It's like he's getting shot out there. I'm a Lakers fan btw and u suck
04:44 this had me giggle 😂
It’s not just free throws, it’s not calling fouls one way while calling them the other way or letting one team play an aggressive defense that the other team is called for. Case in point, GS during their dynasty.
There were 2 straight seasons that Houston was just flat out better despite having James Harden. Houston was deep in the bench and defensively they were a nightmare matchup. CP, Trevor Ariza, PJ Tucker, and CC were a great starting squad. But their bench was deep and almost as good defensively as the first team. But GS would absolutely mug Houston on D and never get called. I mean clear chopping the arms at the biceps and not coming anywhere near the ball and no foul, just a steal. Yet Houston, every time they would take control would get called for looking at their opponents hard. Happened in both seasons and it was clear the NBA was selling something that wasn’t organic.
There’s been other series where I saw this in certain players favor cough cough Labron cough.
I’ve said for years that the league is fixed, might not be every season but there are some seasons that are total WWE.
In the NBAs defense, the NFL is pretty fixed too. Probably more than the NBA.
Heck last night the lakers shot 22 free throws to Denver’s 7. And I watched all the lakers bigs including AD foul Jokic all night and not get called for it.
It was a play where AD dang near pushed Jokic down and when he fell and AD tripped over him, Jokic was called for the foul and the lakers shot free throws.
It’s sad, the league is trying to cheat the lakers into the playoffs and it’s still not working
1988 Finals between Pistons and Lakers was the most blatantly rigged in NBA history. Pistons up 3-2, about to win gm 6 - and league "fixer" Dick bivetta took over. Called phantom foul on Laimbeer to cause gm 7. Everyone knows. But what happened in gm 7 was WORSE.
Lakers up 1 and made layup to go up 108-105, with 2 seconds still on the clock. Pistons had no timeouts. As Laimbeer went to inbound the ball, the Laker's fans were already rushing on the court, thinking game was already over. The Lakers bench players and coaches did too. Isiah darted between fans. Despite this, Laimbeer fullcourt inbound pass hit Isiah in-stride with a chance for a game-tying 3. Before he could get 1 dribble, Magic collided with him, knocking him to the floor, surrounded by fans. This was game 7 of the NBA Finals and... THE REFS LET IT STAND!! Not only was no foul called on Magic, but the "correct call" per NBA rules was supposed to be a tech on Lakers players for coming on the court(2 free throws) and a tech on Lakers crowd interfering with live gameplay (2 more free throws).
The Pistons should've got 4 free throws, AND the ball back with 2 seconds.
Don't know why this rigged gm 7 DOESN'T get more coverage than the phantom foul of gm 6... Oh wait, yes i do!
Agreed and this continued into the 2000s and beyond with the NBA favoring the Lakers. They got so many series rigged to thier advantage. But yes 1988 that was rediculious and a clear rig job. How can fans and players be allowed to interfere with the final play, and nothing be done? Just insane.
I agree. When I saw that old footage of the end of game 7 a few years ago, I was shocked! End of NBA Finals game 7 and it was just pandemonium. No calls.
That series was over when Zeke broke his foot.
@@robertwiles8106 over? How you figure? Isiah put up 43 with that busted ankle, and Lakers still needed refs to cheat, twice, to fix the series for them.
@@nathanlawson313 He was just so busted up for game 7 you just knew the pistons weren't going to have the mojo to win it all even though they were right there with the Lakers. What got them over the hump was the Dantley Aguirre trade. Aguirre was a BEAST and a significant upgrade over Dantley at that point in time. To have an offensive machine like Aguirre coming off the bench was like having a Microwave and an EVEN BETTER Microwave.
I'm a Phoenix Suns fan
So no doubt in my mind
NBA would've never allowed their new dynasty of the Spurs to be beaten by a "small market" team
Still don't get how Phoenix....the 5th biggest Metro City in the country is a small market
A city that is one of two to host one of the four major sports preseasons??
A city that is a final four host??
A major bowl game host city??
A super bowl host city??
A CFP championship host city?
Oh let's not mention that it's also one of the few major cities that professional athletes across all vast majority of sports come to train in their off seasons
But yeah small sports market
The Kawhi laughs in the background are hilarious. 😂
22 FTs for lakers, 7 for Nuggets on Kobe statue night.
The rabbit hole is deep and the evidence available was enough for me to stop watching the NBA since at least 2018 if not before then.
Child of A pro x cowboy n pops said it’s all rigged
This was well done and thought provoking. The Kwahi Leonard laugh at the perfect moments were the cherry on top.
Bulls Pacers game 7 in Chicago, Knicks Pacers in New York. Not surprising small market teams hardly have any rings and big market teams have many.
I feel like American sports are pretty easy to rig. It’s a organization with owners that rent teams.
The nba or mlb or nfl control everything. There’s no separate leagues or teams that can try to hold another team or ref accountable like in football. Actual complaints to the organization of UEFA, or La Liga, or the Premier league is a thing. There’s the refs association and fifa. These things are obviously connected, but are also separate.
Rigging most definitely happens in sports where there’s drafting odds, and there’s clear signs of ref issues. I mean why would David stern leak the ref details? There’s obviously other refs who were rigging this shit.
Also there’s much harder punishments in football for example. refs who do bad jobs have basically had to retire within 2 seasons after really really bad games.
Actual consequences.
Idk, maybe being to commercialized is a bad thing? Maybe there’s a reason why the nba always merged with other leagues who became decently big until the 80’s. Monopolizing the whole sport means there’s no real consequence for those who set up the whole system. The refs, the upper management. No consequences unless it’s actually illegal, and you’re somehow stupid enough to get caught.
That’s kinda what’s going on rn, rigging things is so blatant that even the idiots who can’t keep it subtle are also doing it, which makes it improbable that anyone is genuinely clean
Go back and look at the lone title the Cavs have when LeFlop returned. Now look at Game 4 and take a second look at the Dray and LeFlop incident. Dray hit LeFlop in the inner thigh, not higher. Then LeFlop runs to the league front office, probably straight to Silver who waited for LeFlop with open arms and saying it's ok cry baby, daddy will make it better. If that doesn't say the league has been rigged, I literally don't know what does. Yeah the Lakers get a shit ton of free throws no matter where they are attacking from on the court. The Lakers are also literally the only team that is allowed to play defense. This is why I have stopped caring about watching basketball, no matter who is playing. Everything is built on a narrative for this league. Take Wemby for example, you really think the front office wants a second rookie winning the Rookie of the Year in Chet? Yeah, I don't think so either. You get like a quarter of the story and present it like it's the whole pie, you can do better and should do better. Don't be another LeFlop giving 10% effort. Go hard or go home.
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@@zachrowe6271 i aint saying its true cause hes an obious lebron hater but i have the video right here that shows that in game 6 steph should not have been fouled out not to mention the fact that if those are fouls then the cavs should def have been called more
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Baseball is the only one of the major sports that is set up to not allow officials to rig the game.
Balls and strikes HAVE to be called accurately or the ump is likely fired.
No getting rid of the best player as in basketball (foul-outs).
No purposely injuring the best player as in football.
Baseball really is the only sport with legitimate outcomes.
There's a reason why between 1980 and 2010 the biggest markets won 20 of those 30 titles. Lakers got 10, Bulls got 6 Boston got 4 and Golden State won 4 after 2010. There's zero chance the small market Bucks and Nuggets would have ever sniffed a title if Stern was still running the NBA.
That 2002 game six still infuriates me.
Same for 2007's Western Conference Semifinals myself.
yo ik people gas you up for being “only talking about the warriors” but i’ve been watching ur channel for a while and your videos have improved so much since then and you’ve provided some really good analysis. keep up the good work and tbh good job on using steph thumbnails
Now the NBA openly promotes betting IN GAME
US Sports are completely controlled by the team owners. Fans have no say. So owners are allowed to maximize revenues. That's why teams can stay horribly bad for decades as their owners keep getting their cut from TV revenues. In Europe sports are regulated so that fans get the best experience. Every year the bottom teams GO DOWN (are relegated) to the lower level leagues making them miss out hugely on revenues. So while top and middling teams fight to either win championships and or be eligible for various cups, teams near the bottom fight even harder to not be relegated! In the US bottom teams get REWARDED with higher draft pick positions! With such control by owners, why wouldn't games be rigged to maximize viewership?
As a NBA fan out in the PNW, I can confidently say I think you mean "the late NOT SO GREAT David Stern"..
PNW? What exactly is that? I know of PHX! Did you mean that? Because as a Phoenix Suns fan myself, I can second that notion myself. Doubly so since he kept Donald Sterling as a Clippers owner for so damn long in the first damned place! And let's not forget about the Seattle SuperSonics either.....
Bring back one step after dribble - else traveling... and tight calls on carrying... PLEASE!
It happened the other night. The clip joint up big in the 4th quarter, then the Lakers soar back and win. Wait it's the clip joint they give up big leads in the 4th quarter 😊
7:12 this recently happened with Toronto, right
What a coincidence Hometown players like Lebron and Derick Rose went to their home towns.
And after Lebron left the cavs won the 1st pick 3 TIMES! Exactly what would be needed to give them the assets needed for Lebron to go back and form another super team once he was ready to bail on the Heat
That Chris Paul lakers trade was vetoed right after the heat lost the finals, cause they knew the heat had no chance against prime Paul and Kobe. Lebron won his first ring next season.
@@tanic0925yexactly the nba robbed Kobe of ring number 6
Fantastic video, great pacing and some very nostalgic things. I value the fact that I can remember not having a phone and the feeling the world had without so much tech. I was only a kid but things just felt… different.
I think so too. Specially from the media personality, owners, trading agents and some players who play for their own selfish gains. Some no longer love the game but too much concern on their career, career, career. Tsk tsk tsk. Good thing Luka came in to show how basketball is all about. Smiling and playing to entertain the crowd who is the backbone of all.
Some officials have it out for certain players and teams
You convinced me laker fans love watching free throws😂😂
I remember watching the kings/Lakers. I was a kings fan and I was yelling that it was rigged. It was wild years later to find out it was true.
As a Spurs fan we also got screwed.
Everyone I know stopped paying attention to the NBA back in the 90s when they threw the rule book out the window.
These days, palming the ball appears to be mandatory. As does carrying the ball.
Traveling is at least 5 steps now.
There is no longer a penalty for camping out in the paint.
And body checking, slapping and grabbing are now perfectly legal.
Compared to the old days, the NBA is now just a clown show. It’s Iike watching children on a playground make up rules as they go.
And good sportsmanship disappeared ages ago.
I had give up on the NBA. As Nuggets fans (small market) watched for years as anyone who got close to Lebronda or Kobe was called for a foul. It was pathetic when they would ask for fouls when no one was near them while Nuggets players were hammered relentlessly. Seriously they lost to the Fakers for DECADES with the 4th quarter producing enough fouls to win or the Denver star player getting 3 mystery fouls in the 1ts half and the 4th the second they reentered the game. It was clock work. Every time.
For a long time We thought the Fakers were paying the ref's. Majic, Kobe, Shaq etc, joking with the refs during the game they knew they would win. Then people in all the small markets stopped watching and the NBA knew it. Then San Antonio is allowed to win and the league changed.
Jokic still has to take a beating to win. I'm sure others who watch their teams have seen the same stuff.
The fact of the matter is that the biggest problem in every major sport (basketball, football, soccer, baseball, I can only assume hockey as well) is the officiating. The refs are given free rein to do whatever they please without any oversight and without any accountability. The refs need to be held to the same standards that the players and coaches are and criticism of them needs to be more acceptable, especially when they routinely make clown calls game after game after game.
Hockey at least isn't rigged, it's just atrocious lol. It would be nearly impossible to rig hockey
@@RIPJimmyA7X😂😂😂 with PP You give a win 9 Times from 10 example oilers ho have ridiculous fake PP gifts
“Its a complete crap!”
I also don’t think free throws are the best way to give a team the win. The quality of fouls called on both sides is even worse than getting free throws. By calling soft fouls on one side and only hard fouls on the other, it gives the team called for harder fouls more room to make offensive plays.
the way they treated Allan Iverson is enough evidence of BS for any average NBA enjoyer...
Don't forget the coverup of the referee scandal. The feds had him and he agreed to wear a wire to get others on tape. They let the NBA know of their investigation into game fixing and Stern immediately went public with it.This alerted suspects of the witness and killed any chance of them learning more. The ref was exiled and the NBA quickly called him an isolated incident and declared that nobody else was involved.
In my opinion, this video is dead on. I don't have to look at stats to know this. Because of corruption, we may never know what team is the best in the NBA. All I know for sure is that it is not the Lakers. If the Lakers did not get as many free throws, they would firmly sit near or at the bottom of the league. Gambling turned pro boxing into the most corrupt sport in the world. Now, other sports are turning into a haven for the criminal element. Gamblers don't care about honest, fair sports they care only about money, and thats the bottom line.
I'd like to see a call-by-call breakdown on these games and not just "look how many free throws they got". If you can show me that 80% of the calls were BS, then we have something to look at. But the raw numbers completely neglect whether or not each individual call was warranted.
As someone who was an NBA fan in the mid-eighties, there was no way the NBA was in trouble at that time. That was the height of the Lakers-Celtics Magic-Bird rivalry. Interest in the league was very high. All sports fans were into it. Don't know what this guy is talking about. However, yes the league is fixed. The Tim Donaghy scandal proved that.
Yep the stink goes all the way back to King's Lakers playoffs. I've been watching the NBA for over 50 years. And it's nice to see someone so clearly presenting the evidence of the stink that favors the Lakers. And this year there's a special stink that's been against the Warriors. 🤮
What really blew me away was in the playoffs last year. Wiggins, mindful of whistles, jumped up when Davis shot, and even though Wiggins was a good 2 feet from him, they called him for a foul. Wonder why the Warriors couldn't defend in that series? That's one of the answers.
Goes back to Michael Jordan, The league’s cash cow
@@IblewuponyourfaceIII Superstar favoritism and refs trying to influence the outcome of games has been happening before that. The Kareem phantom call against Laimbeer, for example. It's just that it gets more obvious when one team needs A LOT of ref help to beat other teams, like the Lakers did in 2023.
And sometimes the NBA just wants to extend a series. That worked against MJ in 1997 when he got a totally clean block on Stockton at a pivotal moment in Game 4 and the call actually went against him. The NBA definitely wanted that series to go back to Chicago. Just like they wanted Cavs/Warriors to go beyond five games in 2016 after LeBron and Kyrie wet the bed in Game 4.
I like your videos bro but you are milking the HELL out of that Kawhi laugh dawg…
Great research buddy. Thanks. This only solidifies what I already knew: $$$
Perfect example is the Bulls getting Derrick Rose in the 08 draft lottery. There was less than a 1% chance that they get the first pick and lo and behold they get the first pick to get the hometown kid and this is not the only instance of this happening go back and look through the draft and when there's a can't miss number one Prospect who you know in the hometown is you know in the lottery they almost always get the person they need the hometown kid
I hate when people use shot selection as a reason for why a team does or doesn’t get more free throws. Whether a shot is taken from behind the 3 point line or in the paint, it shouldn’t change what the literal definition of a foul is. Like just cuz Steph shoots 13 3s in one game, refs aren’t supposed to call fouls when he get hit going to the rim and literally gets knocked down? If we’re calling it a foul on one end, if the literal exact same play takes place on the other end, it shouldn’t be called cuz “Well they shoot 3s.”
Exactly and if you look at the stats the Lakers shot a lot of threes that game too but they got 40+ free throws to win by 1 point
Yeah, it the dumbest sh!t I've ever heard.
Wildest/Most surprising succesful challenge I've ever seen during Warriors Sixers. Especially when you juxtapose it to that unsuccessful Warriors one when Les blocked the 3 PT attempt last game. And when you recall Wiggs being called for a foul when Shai karate kicked him.
That sh** was fishy AF lmao. Glad the game didnt come down to that. 😊😊
I remember that Lakers/Kings game. They weren’t even shy about it..
Donaghy's doco on Netflix was definitely an eye opener!
In the earlier years of Lebron's career the nba bent over backwards to cater to his play.
The NBA is the easier of the major professional sports to rig, arguably. Football, the refs only have a narrow window where schenanigans can occur. Baseball boils down to balls n strikes. (Which unto itself is large. Though I bet in some cases, it's a matter of an ump BSing a call because he blinked) NBA however, the referees are empowered to pause the action at almost ANY point due to whatever collisions they deem to be 'foul worthy.' Or any interactions they deem to be 'ejection worthy.' Hell, I swear the narrative a year or two ago, was "Avoiding ejecting key players' as it would 'negatively effect the game.' And yet, this season, we've had quite a few ejections that have been almost as bad, as Tim Duncans for sitting on the bench, laughing.
I remember watching that Laker v Kings series when I was 11 and I realized it was rigged immediately. I was kind of heartbroken. The thing about rigging is it ruins the value of it all. It also hurts the fans perception of the players. You begin to wonder how great certain guys are if the league is fixing for them.
I'm sorry but I have to agree. I'm a Knicks fan and we've had only one-that's right-one #1pick since 1985!! We haven't even been able to secure a #2 pick since then! And go figure. The NBA offices are in New York.
Dale. It's outrageous.