I honestly believe the NBA wanted us in the finals until CP3 got hurt. Then they did us no favors by not calling Harden's fouls on his 3s.
THE NBA cheated us out of a Championship and gave it to the Warriors Now they changed the rule to help the Warriors NBA just want $$$ by giving all the help to the Warriors and they don't want Rockets to win because we're Houston, Texas
Didn’t make any sense for them to think this way. They knew the Cavs had no shot versus the warriors. If the Rockets win Lebron could have taken a few games from us without CP3. Series woulda been much more interesting and longer then the snooze fest that I watched non of.
I feel pretty confident that more viewers would watch the finals if GS was there rather than a cp3less rockets squad.
Serious questions for Yall... - is every game rigged by the NBA? Or does it only happens in the playoffs? - who decides and whos involved? Adam Silver? Refs? Players? Did they pay off Harden/CP3 - how far does this go back? Were Jordan's championship all rigged? Hakeems? Magic's and birds?
The NBA doesn’t care about Houston. They don’t need your money, they’ve crunched the numbers. Houstonians don’t spend as much as other townspeople do on tickets, gear, viewing. Our media market might be #10 if not worse, and considering that our population is at #3 that’s really saying something. Rest assured that the most manipulated, choreographed, and hype-driven entertainment product out of the Big Three sports knows what they are doing.
i would think it only happens in key games during the playoffs based on projected revenue from certain matchups via jersery sales, ad revenue, ticket sales, etc. i think players play their hearts out for the most part, and it's the refs that sway the games ever so subtly
Adam Silver wants the Warriors to be the first team ever to 4peat to attract more attention. They've concluded that Warriors winning actually increases viewership.
Its easy to get Rings in the NBA nowadays. All the great players get together like a pickup game and compete against the latter and look like NBA greats.
Unless you are a player, coach or management, you are not part of the"we" you speak of. In fact, not one player, coach or manager has ANY clue who YOU or anyone else here is and on top of that, they don't care. They don't know that YOU specifically were happy when they won or mad when they lost. They talk about their fans but to them, the fans in their minds are just a bunch of blurry faces up in the stands or someone they can't see behind a tv or computer. They don't know YOU. Let me put this more into perspective. When they add a player, you don't get a single dollar of that players money. When someone takes a smaller contract, that does not put a single dollar back into your bank account. When they make the playoffs and start collecting extra money, you don't get a single dollar. When they win a Championship, you don't get a single dollar. You also don't get your name placed alongside theirs in the history books. They give YOU nothing. When the next season starts, no one is reminding YOU of your success last year and handing you a trophy. YOU get nothing. You are a figment of your imagination in THEIR reality. That being said, YOU do get to pay a lot of money to watch them play for 2.5 hours. YOU can buy a shirt and wear it and a hat and wear it and pay $12 for 1 beer just to be their fan. You can talk about what great things THEY did or the things THEY should have done that did or should have made YOU happy but they have no clue about it and don't care what YOU think. You are not part of them. YOU buying stuff like tickets, parking fees, shirts, hats, beer, nachos, etc. gives THEM their money but that's it. You don't own a share of the team for doing that. That was just on you, freely giving them your time and money. They don't owe you anything back and won't give you anything back. I used to work in sports a long time ago and can tell you it is all a business even on the collegiate level. Period. Profit is at the top of the totem pole with winning second. Of course, winning will bring more profit but that's why they really want to win. Loyalty doesn't exist. If you can add a star to your team, great, you just added more marketability to your brand which will drive sales up. More ticket sales, jersey sales, etc. Someone's popularity drops? Move on, bad for business. It's all about sales and they want YOU to buy. That's why in the marketing, they say, be part of the team and show your support then show fans cheering and wearing their crap. That's part of the brainwashing of marketing. They know YOU are not part of the team but YOU don't. You eat it up like a fool. Just trying to help a brother or sister out. Too many people are fanatical around here, its completely unhealthy. I used to be one and have recovered.
Of course. Think about it Jordan- 3rd biggest city Magic- 2nd Biggest city Bird- Boston Warriors- San Francisco-Oaktown Bay Area of 5 million people. It's all rigged for the $$$ Remember when they rigged the Kings and Lakers WCF games so Kobe and Shaq and Los Angeles get the ring? They weren't going to let Sactown the Cowtown win against LA and the p*rn stars
This has become the new "Houston, you have a problem" line in terms of anger inducing simplistic rhetoric.
Somewhat agreed with the OP Rockets got screwed, but the players need to get over it.... If not, donate their salary elsewhere. Some of these dudes got phat contracts over the off-season. Put up, or shut up
Well. Good I'm in Europe, it's night and day here from what u say. Players here are held accountable by fans. Not saying it's great but visits to team practices by most 'fanatical and radical fans' after stretch of bad effort aren't something unusual in sports here. Believe me they don't want to piss off fans here But I get your point. I heard story from ex-NBA player about Dennis Rodman and how he was playing above the rules(for example poking eyes on rebounds etc). From what he said players union was so mad with it that they sent official statement to Stern demanding refs to look out for it and what he replied was basically admiting that it's too good of marketing product and Rodman with his antics makes money for both league and players so for their own interest he will be allowed to continue doing whatever he does on the court. Pretty much sums up whole league
i was silent when we played ugliest offense of all time while it was working. but once worriers figured us out and we started to attempt forced threes, missing all of them now all of a sudden we lost because of refs. You can see in new season that the ISO-heavy offense + switching all defense has been figured out over the summer and that's why we are playing like ****. We were just as slow and predictable whole second part of last season but nobody had answer to that and wins sweetened up the eye-test. Dribbling for 23 seconds and putting contested stepback three/passing to the wing isn't that much of a genius as we wanted to believe Just clog the paint, cut/off Capela and James drives and we can't do nothing about it unless CP is at his peak self
OK, in your view... magic, birds and jordans rings are all rigged... cool. Did the league also rigged the championship for Hakeem and the rockets in 94 and 95 too?
