Friendly reminder that crooked referee Scott Foster exchanged 134 phone calls with Tim Donaghy.

Tmac had Tim Donahey and Harden has Scott Foster

But Harden has no problem leading his team to at least the conference finals

Refs

 

Idiots, trolls and bots

Stay away from social media on these topics.

 

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Hakeem chamionship
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Tmac bad

 

I agree they just don't deserve to have the 3 spot right now and that's unfortunate

 

Bad example. LA and NYC have two teams in every sport because there's a big enough fan base to support them (populations of 19M and 20M, respectively).

A better example: Why the league allowed a small market like Oklahoma City to steal an NBA franchise that had been in Seattle for 40 years. It's because Clay Bennett was David Stern's NBA-executive protege and they had a very friendly relationship.

If the league will look the other way while a long-entrenched franchise is being stolen, then it's certainly capable of assuring desired outcomes of games.

 

True. Also though there are a lot more big money spenders in LA for the luxury boxes, etc. There are a lot of cities that are much smaller than OKC that have teams in every sport. There are also cities like San Diego bigger than most that really got robbed. They don't even have an NBA or football team. Vegas gets a team though because the high rollers and performers will spend big on the suites and box seats.

Somehow cities half the size of San Diego have teams in all sports, so I think it is more politics, wealth, and greed than just population. Your OKC example fits both sides of that.

 

The Spurs 5 championships say this post has a LOT of hyperbole in it.

 

2007 WCSF Game 4, Horry hip-checks Nash into the scorers table during the final seconds of a Suns win, only for Amar'e Stoudemire and Boris Diaw to miss game 5 in PHX via suspensions for the crime of standing up to a dirty play (Duncan also emerged from the bench, nothing happened to him tho), a game the Suns lost by 3.

Even those rings are tainted

 

Yeah, but don't forget that San Diego has had two NBA franchises and failed to support them. I lived there for a few years and can tell you that it's just not a big-team-sports kind of town. Lost of outdoor activities, but not a whole lot of team spirit.

 

Just curious, anyone have a link to the most egregious call Foster has made on Rox over the 7 losses this season? Thx

 

Conspiracy theory man, tim donaghy was right after all

 

I suggest to give some punishment to refs such as fine or stop their careers. otherwise, they will not make the game fair

 

Steve Cur: I am really worried, after what happened it's all over the hot takes - they are freaking
Adam Silver: They see that game, what do you think they'll do?
Steve Cur: They'll freak!
Adam Silver: No $##% they'll freak - that ain't any kind of answer
Steve Cur: You got to appreciate what an explosive element this media situation is - they see another of these gangster games doing gangster #%%, no telling what they're liable to do.
Adam Silver: I grasp that Steve, All I am doing contemplating my if's
Steve Cur: I don't want to hear about any mofo if's. All I want to hear from your ass is 'You ain't got no problem Cur, I'm on the mofo, go back in there and chill those n****** out, and wait for the cavalry which is coming directly'
Adam Silver: You ain't got no problem Cur, I'm on the mofo, go back in there and chill those n****** out, and wait for the FOZE who should be coming directly
Steve Cur: You sending in the FOZE?
Adam Silver: You feel better, Mofo?
Steve Cur: S^$* *#$^($ That's all you had to say!

 

I think one thing as fans we can do to turn up the heat on the refs is highlight Foster. Retweet the HELL out of this, let's get it in front of as many eyes as possible:

 

In all my years of non-calls, technicals, screwjobs, it was never personal. But I'll tell you now, what I'm about to do to your stubborn, annoying little franchise... I'm gonna enjoy it. Very, very much.

 

Harden should think about how to put ball into the net without foul

 

Of course he was, i never thought it was a coincidence he called Foster so many times.

 

When you're worried about landing and spraining your ankle it is going to take your concentration away from making the shot

 

Scott Foster's not the miss-an-actual-foul type of ref. He's more the call-a-foul-that-never-actually-happened type.